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sent: mon, dec 12, 2022 5:26 p.m.
"coronavirus updates: military with 'near-certainty' to strip away vaccine mandate"
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| | Guide to the pandemicU.S. vaccine distribution and delivery, tracked by state. Submit a question and we may answer it in a future story or newsletter. | | Your questions, answeredWho is dying and being hospitalized with the coronavirus? Most Americans being hospitalized and dying from covid-19 are people 65 or older, according to Washington Post reporters Ariana Eunjung Cha and Dan Keating. While the number of daily deaths from the virus has declined substantially since 2020, more than 400 people still die daily on average, according to the most recently updated weekly data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Post's McKenzie Beard reported last month that, for the first time, a majority of Americans dying from covid "received at least the primary series of the vaccine. Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation." Health experts say this reflects multiple factors. For one, the people at greatest risk of dying from covid are older Americans, and they are more likely to have been vaccinated. And, as Beard writes, it also is a numbers game: "At this point in the pandemic, a large majority of Americans have received at least their primary series of coronavirus vaccines, so it makes sense that vaccinated people are making up a greater share of fatalities." Additionally, vaccines lose strength over time, and they have proved less effective against stopping the spread of a mutating virus. Still, the vaccines remain a significant tool in efforts to prevent severe illness and death. Duane R. Wesemann, an immunologist at Harvard Medical School, compares vaccines to wearing a seat belt. "If you look at car crashes, you might find that most people who die had a seat belt on, but that doesn't mean that seat belts don't actually help to prevent deaths. It just could be that most people wear seat belts," Wesemann said. The demographics of deaths also have changed. Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating analyzed data from the cdc and found that the racial death disparity "vanished at the end of last year, becoming roughly equal." According to Johnson and Keating, at the beginning of the pandemic, black people were three times more likely than White people to die from covid. But a shift happened in October 2021: The rate of deaths among White American [sic] surpassed black deaths. That shift reflects vaccine misinformation, pushback against masking mandates and political ideologies. [N.S.: Huh? None of that makes sense.] Today's top reads
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This Austin Secretary of DOD still walks around with a face mask from time to time he does follow his own rules but they are unnecessary rules
I have often wondered that these foreign dignitaries when confronted by secretary Austin do they indeed really take the man seriously or they just feel that the USA is playing a joke on them
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