Coronavirus: “Vaccinated people are 16 times more likely to die”

The unvaccinated is 16 times more likely to need admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) and succumb New South Wales Department of Health said in a report that officials were urging citizens to be immunized after the government decided to adopt a new strategy. Australia to live with him coronavirus.

Ministry data show that only 11% of the 412 people who succumbed to the outbreak Delta mutation in the last four months, until the beginning of October, he was fully vaccinated. The median age of these victims was 82 years. Only 3% of people admitted to the ICU had received both doses of their vaccines. According to the APE-MPE, over 63% of the cases between June 16th and October 7th were unvaccinated.

“Young people who received two doses of the vaccine had lower rates of infection and almost never had a serious form of the disease, while those who did not get vaccinated in the same age group had a higher risk of developing (severe) COVID-19 symptoms and needed to be admitted.” in a hospital “, clarified o Carrie Chad, New South Wales chief health official, in a ministry statement.

Coronavirus – Australia: Vaccination Causes Death Rate to Infection

The findings are largely in line with those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main US public health service, which warned in September that the unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to succumb due to complications of COVID-19 compared to those who have been fully vaccinated.

Australia had managed to control – comparatively – the pandemic until July this year, when an outbreak attributed to Delta forced the authorities to impose for months of lockdown in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, in other words in the two most populous cities of the country and in the capital.

However, these cities are easing the restrictions, as the targets of fully vaccinating 70% to 80% of the target population of the campaign have been exceeded. In New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney, the immunization campaign seems to have leveled off, as coverage with at least the first installment has reached almost 94% of citizens over 16 years of age.

Nearly half of the 1,841 deaths from COVID-19 and about 87% of the nearly 183,000 SARS-CoV-2 infections in Australia are attributed to the Delta variant. However, The rate of deaths from infections this year is lower than last year, thanks to the rapid increase in vaccinations after July.