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Quarter of U.S. Covid Deaths Were Preventable
April 21, 2022 at 12:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 130 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/21/quarter-of-u-s-covid-deaths-were-preventable/
"SNIP......
Philip Bump: New analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Kaiser Family Foundation quantifies the effects of vaccination. Since June 2021, the point at which every American adult had access to coronavirus vaccines, they estimate that just over 234,000 unvaccinated Americans died who could have lived had they been immunized against the virus.
Thats nearly a quarter of the total death toll from the pandemic.
.....SNIP"
underpants
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Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)Chautauquas
(4,442 posts)was watching as so many people in the US became ill with Covid because they refused the vaccination, including several people I used to work with at a psychiatric hospital before I retired, and I will never forget the sense of relief I felt when the vaccination became available.
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)grand illusions of the stupid?
I Note here that no-one is yet discussing the future impact of disability or later deaths due to COVID side effects or Long COVID effects. As we found out with Agent Orange the long term impact may be far larger (and potentially much more expensive to treat) than the initial damage.