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From the Washington Post, April 29:
"Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows"
"The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post. The data is based on the date of infection and limited to a sampling of cases in which vaccination status was known."
Boosters help, but they are no guarantee.
Right, obviously there are never any guarantees when it comes to COVID, but this quote from the Washington Post is exactly the kind of vague information I was referring to. For example, they said 42 percent of fatalities were among unvaccinated patients... but were they boosted? How many of those were fully vaccinated but elderly, or hypertensive, or obese, or diabetics, or heavy smokers, or immunocompromised? These kinds of details matter.