Report: Nearly All COVID-19 Deaths Involve Unvaccinated People

A new study found that nearly 100 percent of COVID-19 deaths happened in people who were not vaccinated.

According to an Associated Press analysis of CDC data, only 150 out of 18,000 COVID deaths recorded in May involved people who were fully vaccinated – less than 1 percent of the total.

The hospitalization rate was even lower – just 0.1% of more than 850,000 cases in May involved so-called “breakthrough” infections from vaccinated patients.

Currently, about 63% of eligible U.S. adults have received at least one vaccine dose.

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine. https://t.co/q1BxfT2rPR

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 24, 2021