BOOSTED AMERICANS ARE 97 TIMES LESS LIKELY TO DIE OF COVID-19 THAN THOSE UNVACCINATED

  From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82

July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572

Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130

Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82

Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85

Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118

Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465

Jan     14        4142    15512         1151        189       712

Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398

Mar     2        1989     9490        1726       110      194

April   6         906     11787         4211       631       37

May    4         853    13667        3025      3786      59 

June   1         287    10637         2346      3205      95

 July   7          251      8440        1595         817     411

Aug    4          656    10120        1118         532     423 

Sept  22       2228      9326          839        279     124

Oct    6         2102      8255          543        315       59

Nov   3         1436      7830         186         458       23

Dec    1        1633      8475          266        477       28

Jan    7         2025      6729         148        285      140

       14          2303      7872         238        430      128

       21          2777      9091         396        489      103

       26          3143   10,554         606        575        94

       27          2689   10,261         662        627        71

       28          2732   10,516         779        862      133

Feb  2           2990   12,012         946        991      175

        9           2785   11,827         1295      1241      213

      10           2465   11,110           922        659     203

      11            1917    11,193          1121        804      146

      17            2184   11,440        1129        496      435

      24           1823     9,809        996        304       40

Mar     2        1778     7,756         335        173        28

Summary:

• All improving, except not much for the USA.
• However, we have fallen way behind in new cases:
• USA 50,699
• South Korea  219,237
• Germany  198,457
• Vietnam  110,301
• The USA should similarly experience a major decline in new deaths soon, and certainly by next week.

From the New York Times this morning;

• About 20 countries, most of which are NATO or E.U. members, are sending arms into Ukraine, risking retaliation from Russia.

• The Fed intends to raise interest rates this month to cool inflation.

• 
  The Jan. 6 committee said there was evidence to conclude that Donald Trump may have committed crimes to try to stay in office.

• Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia outlined a spending plan, including climate policies, that he could support.

Further from the New York Times:

So why are 60 million American adults, or one in four, still unvaccinated?  Apparently there is a long historical tradition:

• Three centuries ago, in the 1720's, Boston experienced the spread of smallpox.  Cotton Mather learned about an inoculation process from an African slave and campaigned for this.  He was met with fierce criticism, using arguments that inoculation violated God's will and that his folklore would do more harm than good.

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  Today, we know that vaccinations teach our immune system to respond to a deadly virus.  But conservative Republicans and the Fox News Channel relish in dissing science and deprecating any Democratic policy.
• Further, some combination of partisanship, even up to the Supreme Court to prevent mandates, plus similar public skepticism as we had 300 years ago, prevent our country from convincing all.
• 
  President Joe Biden has thus resorted to persuasion.  Persuasion.
• I think fear will work better:
• An article from 25November 2021 indicated that the unvaccinated are 14 times more likely to die from COVID-19.

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  On 2February2022:  fully vaccinated people are 93% less likely to die of COVID compared to unvaccinated people.
• Also on 2February2022:  boosted Americans 97 times less likely to die of virus than unvaccinated.
• Probably citing the same analysis, but on 9February2022 the latest CDC data showed that unvaccinated adults were 97 times more likely to died from COVID-19 than boosted adults.
• The White actually released this tweet during that period:

President Biden

@POTUS

United States government official

Here’s the deal: Unvaccinated individuals are 97 times more likely to die compared to those who are boosted. Protect yourself and those around you by getting vaccinated and boosted today.

12:14 PM · Feb 5, 2022·The White House

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  With every daily report of new cases and new deaths, every source should underscore how many were boosted and how many were unvaccinated.  One reaction might be that if even only one person who was boosted died, then those considering getting boosted might shy away, for these people die too.  On the other hand, any one with any kind of sense would be swayed to get boosted, especially if the other 96 who died that day were not vaccinated.  I CAN'T GET THIS DATA FROM ANY SOURCE TODAY!!!  The only comparison I read comes from special reports every so often.  I haven't seen one for a month.  I won't show a cartoon today.  I just want you to end reading this posting by clicking on this message from the Cleveland Clinic.

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