COVID-19 killed more than 6,200 unvaccinated people in Pa., but just 213 who got the jab
Nearly 6,500 people have died of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania since vaccination became widely available in January, with 97% of those either unvaccinated or less than fully vaccinated, Pennsylvania officials announced Tuesday.
Conversely, the virus has killed only 213 fully vaccinated people, or 3% of those who died, the state said.
Officials said the incidence of death among the less than fully vaccinated was 7.9 times as high as the death incidence among the fully vaccinated.
Of nearly 35,000 people admitted to hospitals in Pennsylvania with COVID-19 as the main reason since January,
95% were unvaccinated or less than fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated people accounted for only 1,820 hospitalizations.
The figures cover a period from early January to about a week ago.
Dr. Micheal Ripchinski, the chief clinical officer for Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital said the vaccinated patients tend to recover much more easily and with less need for care. Further, he said
vaccinated people admitted to the hospital tend to have weakened immune systems because of other illness.
Often, COVID-19 isn’t main the main reason they were admitted, he said.
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