[DouglasKC]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Wednesday that coronavirus “vaccines are saving lives” and “are reducing mortality.” “If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chances of you getting seriously ill or dying from Covid is effectively zero,” he said. “If you look at the people being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated. And so these vaccines are saving lives.”

One has to ask then why the death rate is higher now than it was before the vaccines.

[Jim Noble]

One has to ask then why the death rate is higher now than it was before the vaccines

It isn't.

The number of deaths is not a rate.

[shadowlands1960]

Where do you get that the ‘death rate’ is ‘higher’ now than before the vaccines? And I understand by ‘death rate’ the percentage of vaccinated persons dying compared to before when the vaccines were available.. not just a raw statistic without context and not comparing vaccinated populations with unvaccinated. How do you know that the death rate this past year wouldn’t have been double or triple what it is now if the people who have been vaccinated weren’t? I’m including people who died from side effects... J&J for instance has had 9 confirmed deaths in women from blot clots for instance.

[setter]

The death rates is higher post vaccine due to the delta variant killing off all the unvaccinated.