Using data on the current rate of COVID-19 infections in the U.S., the CDC estimates that fully vaccinated people are eight times less likely to have a symptomatic infection, 25 times less likely to be hospitalized, and 24 times less likely to die from COVID-19 infection than those who are unvaccinated.Įditor's note: This article was updated on Aug. What is clear is that current COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of infection, severe disease and death from the novel coronavirus, including the delta variant. New health department data out Friday shows the presence of the so-called delta COVID. after the availability of vaccines, it's difficult to compare deaths from delta with historical deaths from earlier variants - the fatality rate for all variants is expected to drop as a result of vaccinations, according to The Poynter Institute. On Friday, the state reported no new daily in-hospital COVID deaths for the first time since July 30, 2020. Since the delta variant took off in the U.S. However, this fatality rate includes deaths long before the availability of COVID-19 vaccines. since the beginning of the pandemic is 1.7%, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The overall case-fatality ratio (the number of deaths divided by the total number of cases) for COVID-19 in the U.S. Still, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited concerning data involving the delta variant in advising that universal mask mandates be in place for K-12 schools. It's also unclear how the death rate from the delta variant compares with that from other variants. We may finally know why the delta variant of coronavirus is so infectious 'The war has changed,' against new delta variant, internal CDC presentation says

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