Over 70% of elderly are now vaccinated. The prime death targets for the virus are mostly eliminated, if you believe the vaccines can stop the variants.
The graphs say they can’t. The slope of decline of deaths began in January before there was any sort of wide vaccine distribution. That slope has not steepened. In fact, in recent days it has flattened and is doing upticks.
This can’t happen if the vaccinations “worked”. But it is happening.
“...The slope of decline of deaths began in January before there was any sort of wide vaccine distribution. That slope has not steepened....”
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Look, You can do some research on vaccine distributions by the week and you’ll see that many millions of doses were distributed starting in the week of December 4th and accelerating into January. The elderly and folks in nursing homes were major priority targets during that time. You can convince yourself that the vaccines haven’t had an impact, but the facts say otherwise.
“Over 70% of the elderly are now vaccinated.”
True, for at least a first shot. A bit under 50% fully vaccinated.
There is about a 4 week lag between the first shot, and the main reduction in mortality. It starts to kick in during the second week, and grows.
The pace of vaccination continues to grow with increasing supply. From a million shots per day in January, we are now running 2.5 - 3 million per day. The elderly have been gradually edging out of harms way, but April will see them really drop out of the equation.
We are running roughly 2-3 months behind Israel, proportionally.