The Covid-19 vaccine has saved countless lives and instance of verified serious adverse reactions are rare. According to one study of vaccinated individuals and unvaccinated individuals, the unvaccinated accounted for at least 98% of all Covid deaths.
Here's a link to the "study," which is actually just a press release from the University System of Georgia relaying the figures from "a new data analysis from The Associated Press."
Staggering COVID-19 Statistic: 98% to 99% of Americans Dying are Unvaccinated
If you have decided to not get vaccinated against COVID-19, a new data analysis from The Associated Press concludes you may have a higher risk of dying compared to those who have chosen to be vaccinated.
The analysis was released in May of 2021 and looks at COVID-19 related deaths in vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals—only .8% (150) of vaccinated people accounted for the 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May.
Not only is this suspect because the data analysis was done by the Associated Press, it appears they've created a form of plausible deniability as these journalists will likely claim they didn't know the following detail affected their number crunching-
Beginning May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections to investigating only those among patients who are hospitalized or die, thereby focusing on the cases of highest clinical and public health significance.
In other words, the CDC quit counting COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections in May 2021 unless there was hospitalization and/or death, and the AP just happened to analyze the data the first month after that new policy went into effect.
From a fact-check of a similar claim-
The tweet, which was posted by "iansmithfitness," stated:
CDC says it will no longer update the number of vaccinated people who test positive for COVID unless they are hospitalized or die. But they'll still update the number of COVID cases for normal people who test positive. So you want to scare us with cases but not vaccinated cases?
The fact checkers go on to "debunk" this -
Lead Stories contacted the CDC to ask about the post's claim. In an email to Lead Stories, dated May 12, 2021, a spokesperson responded:
All cases of COVID should be reported and are tracked by CDC. There are several surveillance systems that collect data on COVID in vaccinated people. CDC is shifting the focus of one surveillance system, but the others will remain intact so that the collection of data on milder cases of breakthrough infection will continue. We also have studies underway that include vaccine breakthrough cases in patients with milder illness that are being conducted in multiple U.S. sites and will supplement the national surveillance. CDC will not miss important data related to vaccine breakthrough infections.
In other words, while it is true that the agency is changing how it monitors breakthrough cases, it's not true that the CDC will only count unvaccinated COVID-19 cases.
Great comment, and look at the double standard: they claim Kirsch's numbers are all unverifiable and then they go on to use unverified numbers to support their flimsy claims.
Yes, and I'm fairly certain the CDC also was counting people who got the first jab and up to 14 days after their second jab as "unvaccinated" as well before the conspiracy theorists got too loud about that inconvenient fact.
Once the CDC changed the definition of unvaccinated to actually mean 0 death jabs, the death numbers for unvaccinated dropped dramatically.
Edit- Just tracked down this link and you can see after they changed the definition in February 2022, the unvaccinated death rate dropped significantly.
Here's the fact check article I found that pointed me to the February 2022 definition change. Kek.
Latest CDC Data: Unvaccinated Adults 97 Times More Likely to Die from COVID-19 Than Boosted Adults
By D'Angelo Gore
Posted on February 9, 2022
However, a Twitter user falsely implied that the death rate for the unvaccinated was inflated by including people who had received only one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Here’s the deal: classifying people who have 1 or 2 jabs as ‘unvaccinated’ is ridiculous,” Libertarians: Diligently Plotting tweeted in response to the POTUS account. An image of that tweet was posted to the Facebook page of “Libertarians: Diligently Plotting to Take Over the World & Leave You Alone,” which has over 71,000 followers.
But the CDC said it only counted people who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine doses as unvaccinated.
A footnote on the CDC’s “Rates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status” webpage says “unvaccinated” means people who have “not been verified to have received COVID-19 vaccine.” In addition, that CDC page says “partially vaccinated people who received at least one FDA-authorized vaccine dose but did not complete a primary series” were excluded.
So after the CDC was called out on their shit, they quit counting partially vaccinated people as unvaccinated and informed site visitors those who had completed at least one dose but did not receive the second shot, i.e. "complete a primary series" were excluded from the totals starting in February 2022.
Death rate dropped substantially since February 2022 if you check that CDC graph above, from 22.93 per 100,000 in January that were "unvaccinated" to 1.24 per 100,000 in May 2022, just 3 months after the definition change on the website.
We can assume either all the weak unvaccinated folks are dead, or those numbers were actually accurate death numbers for those who received the first or second jab (before the 14 day cutoff to be considered "fully vaccinated") and died before February 2022...
tl;dr CDC added footnote to their death tracker website in February 2022 explaining "partially vaccinated" people were no longer counted in the totals, and death rate for the unvaccinated dropped from 22.93 per 100,000 in January 2022 to 1.24 per 100,000 in May 2022.
Read this tidbit at the end of the article.
Here's a link to the "study," which is actually just a press release from the University System of Georgia relaying the figures from "a new data analysis from The Associated Press."
Staggering COVID-19 Statistic: 98% to 99% of Americans Dying are Unvaccinated
If you have decided to not get vaccinated against COVID-19, a new data analysis from The Associated Press concludes you may have a higher risk of dying compared to those who have chosen to be vaccinated. The analysis was released in May of 2021 and looks at COVID-19 related deaths in vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals—only .8% (150) of vaccinated people accounted for the 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May.
https://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/covid-19-staggering-statistic-98-to-99-of-americans-dying-are-unvaccinated/
Archived link - https://archive.ph/Srqkl
Not only is this suspect because the data analysis was done by the Associated Press, it appears they've created a form of plausible deniability as these journalists will likely claim they didn't know the following detail affected their number crunching-
Beginning May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections to investigating only those among patients who are hospitalized or die, thereby focusing on the cases of highest clinical and public health significance.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm
Archived link - https://archive.ph/5shwm
In other words, the CDC quit counting COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections in May 2021 unless there was hospitalization and/or death, and the AP just happened to analyze the data the first month after that new policy went into effect.
From a fact-check of a similar claim-
The tweet, which was posted by "iansmithfitness," stated:
The fact checkers go on to "debunk" this -
Lead Stories contacted the CDC to ask about the post's claim. In an email to Lead Stories, dated May 12, 2021, a spokesperson responded:
In other words, while it is true that the agency is changing how it monitors breakthrough cases, it's not true that the CDC will only count unvaccinated COVID-19 cases.
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/05/fact-check-cdc-will-not-count-only-unvaccinated-covid-19-cases.html
Archived link - https://archive.ph/2QVej
Great comment, and look at the double standard: they claim Kirsch's numbers are all unverifiable and then they go on to use unverified numbers to support their flimsy claims.
Yes, and I'm fairly certain the CDC also was counting people who got the first jab and up to 14 days after their second jab as "unvaccinated" as well before the conspiracy theorists got too loud about that inconvenient fact.
Once the CDC changed the definition of unvaccinated to actually mean 0 death jabs, the death numbers for unvaccinated dropped dramatically.
Edit- Just tracked down this link and you can see after they changed the definition in February 2022, the unvaccinated death rate dropped significantly.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status
Here's the fact check article I found that pointed me to the February 2022 definition change. Kek.
Latest CDC Data: Unvaccinated Adults 97 Times More Likely to Die from COVID-19 Than Boosted Adults
By D'Angelo Gore
Posted on February 9, 2022
However, a Twitter user falsely implied that the death rate for the unvaccinated was inflated by including people who had received only one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
But the CDC said it only counted people who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine doses as unvaccinated.
A footnote on the CDC’s “Rates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status” webpage says “unvaccinated” means people who have “not been verified to have received COVID-19 vaccine.” In addition, that CDC page says “partially vaccinated people who received at least one FDA-authorized vaccine dose but did not complete a primary series” were excluded.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/02/scicheck-latest-cdc-data-unvaccinated-adults-97-times-more-likely-to-die-from-covid-19-than-boosted-adults/
Archived link - https://archive.ph/yuf8T
So after the CDC was called out on their shit, they quit counting partially vaccinated people as unvaccinated and informed site visitors those who had completed at least one dose but did not receive the second shot, i.e. "complete a primary series" were excluded from the totals starting in February 2022.
Death rate dropped substantially since February 2022 if you check that CDC graph above, from 22.93 per 100,000 in January that were "unvaccinated" to 1.24 per 100,000 in May 2022, just 3 months after the definition change on the website.
We can assume either all the weak unvaccinated folks are dead, or those numbers were actually accurate death numbers for those who received the first or second jab (before the 14 day cutoff to be considered "fully vaccinated") and died before February 2022...
tl;dr CDC added footnote to their death tracker website in February 2022 explaining "partially vaccinated" people were no longer counted in the totals, and death rate for the unvaccinated dropped from 22.93 per 100,000 in January 2022 to 1.24 per 100,000 in May 2022.
That’s bullshit. All the people I know who “died with covid” were vaccinated.