[Steve_Seattle]

I'll use Germany as an example of a typical highly vaccinated country:

The most new Covid cases per day, pre-vaccine, using a seven-day rolling average: 25,000. This week, more than a year into the vaccination program, the seven-day rolling average of new cases per day was 182,000, more than a 600% INCREASE. On one day, new cases topped 240,000.

As for deaths, the mid-December rolling average in 2020 (about 390) was roughly the same as in pre-vaccine December 2020. The current death rate (about 145 a day) is similar to that of mid-November 2020, also pre-vaccine. Deaths peaked in January 2021 when the vaccination program was in its early stages.

And none of this even takes into account the adverse vaccine reactions that have been documented.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "I'll use Germany as an example of a typical highly vaccinated country...."

You've written, "This week, more than a year into the vaccination program, the seven-day rolling average of new cases per day was 182,000, more than a 600% INCREASE. On one day, new cases topped 240,000."

Citing only official deaths as of today 6 February, 2022, per Johns Hopkins University---:

( 118,722 German Covid deaths / 83,783,942 Germans ) x 100 = 0.142% mortality over more than two years.

Less than two-tenths of one percent of the population officially Covid dead.

Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/germany

I think this explains the media-government focus on cases, rather than deaths at this point in the WHO-declared pandemic.

You well observe, "And none of this even takes into account the adverse vaccine reactions that have been documented." When that leaf in this saga is written....