On Getting a Boost

[Latrinsorm]

In the month of January 2022,
58,000 Americans died of COVID, of whom
12,000 were fully vaccinated, of whom
4,000 were vaccinated and boosted.

COVID was the leading cause of death in America,
the third leading cause of death for vaccinated Americans, and
the fourth leading cause of death for vaccinated and boosted Americans.
(This doesn't sound like much of an improvement but it is, 4th happens to be way lower than 3rd.)

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There are 38 countries in the OECD.
Of these, America ranks 37th in the % of people who got their first dose receiving their second.
And it is a distant 37th:



While every other OECD country (except Colombia!) has seen more than 90% of the people who received their first dose return for their second, in America we are just below 85%. Note that this has nothing to with people who have not been vaccinated at all: 16,000,000 Americans simply never completed the journey from partially vaccinated to fully vaccinated. We do better in the % of people who received their second dose going back for their booster, ranking all the way up at 33rd! But we still do an objectively bad job, with only 44% of our fully vaccinated getting boosted when many countries are already in the 70%s, leaving 120,000,000 Americans in that third leading cause of death bin. It is also not a question of being slow and steady, in both cases the rate of increase has slowed dramatically:

29 days it took us to get from 10% of the population fully vaccinated to 20%,
20 days from 20% to 30%,
23 days from 30% to 40%,
63 days from 40% to 50%,
135 days from 50% to 60%, and
94 days later we haven't even reached 65%.

37 days it took us to get from 10% of the population boosted to 20%, and
72 days later we still haven't reached 30%.

Pending a sudden, significant, and sustained push for the vaccinated to get boosted, we likely will never reach even half the population boosted as deadlier and deadlier variants continue to emerge.

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I keep posting the numbers about the risk the vaccinated still face because without them we cannot make informed decisions about whether things like the mild inconvenience of a booster shot or the very mild inconvenience of a mask are worth it. Breakthrough deaths for the boosted in February are not yet available, but even though total deaths were about the same at 59,000 breakthrough deaths for the fully vaccinated in total in February markedly increased to 16,000.

[Tgo01]

On getting over it.

[Alfster]

I'm convinced this is satire at this point

[Parkbandit]

Get help Latrinesorm.

[Nephelem]

" as deadlier and deadlier variants continue to emerge"

Covid is not magic, and this is not how viruses generally work. And many poor countries are barely vaccinated, if you are concerned about variants, send your 4th booster there. Get vaccinated, get boosted, but quit LARPing a dystopian movie script.

[SHAFT]

Covid no longer exists. The NFL just said so, earlier today.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...reasing-spread

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

You don't even need masks anymore, because science (not politics).

[Parkbandit]

You don't even need masks anymore, because science (not politics).

Completely not political at all............................................... ..........................................

[Methais]

In the month of January 2022,
58,000 Americans died of COVID, of whom
12,000 were fully vaccinated, of whom
4,000 were vaccinated and boosted.

COVID was the leading cause of death in America,
the third leading cause of death for vaccinated Americans, and
the fourth leading cause of death for vaccinated and boosted Americans.
(This doesn't sound like much of an improvement but it is, 4th happens to be way lower than 3rd.)

.

There are 38 countries in the OECD.
Of these, America ranks 37th in the % of people who got their first dose receiving their second.
And it is a distant 37th:



While every other OECD country (except Colombia!) has seen more than 90% of the people who received their first dose return for their second, in America we are just below 85%. Note that this has nothing to with people who have not been vaccinated at all: 16,000,000 Americans simply never completed the journey from partially vaccinated to fully vaccinated. We do better in the % of people who received their second dose going back for their booster, ranking all the way up at 33rd! But we still do an objectively bad job, with only 44% of our fully vaccinated getting boosted when many countries are already in the 70%s, leaving 120,000,000 Americans in that third leading cause of death bin. It is also not a question of being slow and steady, in both cases the rate of increase has slowed dramatically:

29 days it took us to get from 10% of the population fully vaccinated to 20%,
20 days from 20% to 30%,
23 days from 30% to 40%,
63 days from 40% to 50%,
135 days from 50% to 60%, and
94 days later we haven't even reached 65%.

37 days it took us to get from 10% of the population boosted to 20%, and
72 days later we still haven't reached 30%.

Pending a sudden, significant, and sustained push for the vaccinated to get boosted, we likely will never reach even half the population boosted as deadlier and deadlier variants continue to emerge.

.

I keep posting the numbers about the risk the vaccinated still face because without them we cannot make informed decisions about whether things like the mild inconvenience of a booster shot or the very mild inconvenience of a mask are worth it. Breakthrough deaths for the boosted in February are not yet available, but even though total deaths were about the same at 59,000 breakthrough deaths for the fully vaccinated in total in February markedly increased to 16,000.

Can you please make a thread called On Buying Cold Cuts?

Until this is done, please shut the fuck up.

[Gelston]

oh wow, I completely didn't notice he made another one in his series of On being fucking retarded.