WI: COVID death-gap widens between unvaccinated, vaccinated

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By Juliana Tornabene
Published: Oct. 15, 2021 at 3:12 PM EDT|Updated: 9 hours ago

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Wisconsinites who are not fully vaccinated are almost 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, the state’s top health agency reports Friday.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services updated the Illness After Vaccination page of its COVID-19 dashboard Friday, showing an even wider gap between COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths between residents who are fully vaccinated and those who are not.

Health officials note there were 24.5 deaths per 100,000 not fully vaccinated individuals. That’s more than double what the metric was from the previous month.

Fully vaccinated residents are being reported at 1.3 deaths per 100,000 people, just over 19 times less than those who are not fully immunized ...

https://www.weau.com/2021/10/15/covid-19-gap-widens-between-unvaccinated-vaccinated-deaths/

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Good! nt

[RockRaven]

2. It is good that behaving socially-responsibly yields a direct personal benefit, but beyond that

I'm not too emotionally invested in the fluctuations of magnitude of said benefit.

I wish every would just do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then when they happened to benefit from it that would be fine by me even if I otherwise find them to be loathsome people in general.