Because the data is inconclusive, so-called public health experts instead like to point out that most of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are likely due to the delta variant. This conveniently ignores the fact that most current COVID-19 cases are because of the post-vaccine variant.
“Since the latest projections suggest that more than 94 percent of current COVID-19 cases are due to [the delta variant] … we can be fairly confident that the overwhelming majority of deaths we are seeing are due to delta,” said Dr. Francesca L. Beaudoin, interim chair of epidemiology at Brown University.
Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego‘s Department of Medicine, explained why it is difficult for researchers to calculate the post-vaccine delta variant’s death rate.
She said the U.S. is “falling short of surveillance.” It is understood that a vast majority of cases currently active in the country are from the delta variant, but a lack of exact numbers makes it difficult to understand its death rate.
“If we only test people who are sick, those who have mild symptoms or who are asymptomatic don’t end up in the denominator,” she said.
Complicating matters further is the fact that analysts are not factoring in people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This means that the death rates for fully vaccinated individuals are not even considered, let alone compared to the death rates for unvaccinated people....<<<Read More>>>>...
