Hmm well let’s see. 2/3 the peak infections.. but not even a 10th of the deaths.. and nation is about 60-70% vaccinated.
But it’s the vaccines that are lowering the death rates?!?!
Bullspit.
Would expect 200 ish deaths a day if the vaccines were the reason.. fact it’s lower than that means either this strain is less deadly or our treatment methods have gotten better
It’s a lot of things. Vaccines are protecting the group that’s most vulnerable - the elderly. Treatments HAVE gotten a lot better. And younger, presumably healthier people are getting sick - while some get hospitalized and some even die, most have milder cases or, if hospitalized, stay a shorter time and don’t progress to ICU or ventilators.
...or many people (like my wife and I and a number of our friends and relatives - unvaxxed - have had Covid and are now immune if the past is any indication of the future).
As a conservative podcaster likes to say, "Two [or more, I'd add] things can be true at the same time."