Americans who refuse vaccinations are costing US big bucks as well as lives [View all]

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Source: The Hill

The delta variant is projected to claim 120,000 American lives over the second half of this year, and this surge will reduce the annualized rate of GDP growth by one percentage point. Overall, U.S. GDP in 2021 will fall by around $70 billion. This represents a very small share of the United States’s $23 trillion economy, but it nevertheless dwarfs the direct hospitalization costs of the delta surge, and represents an implicit tax of about $210 for every man, women and child in the country.
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Anti-vaxxers thus not only endanger their own lives and those of their family, friends and co-workers, but also limit the recovery of spending, production and employment.




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