Among people ages 50 years and older, the unvaccinated had a risk of dying from COVID-19 that was 29 times higher than their fully vaccinated and double-boosted peers.
In April, risk of death was 42 times higher among the unvaccinated. Despite the fact that there has been a decline in vaccine efficacy, data shows that the shots are still largely helping protect against severe disease.
Older Americans - particularly those over 70 - are being hospitalized at a significantly higher rate than all other age groups. Comparatively, people 70 and over, in the U.S., are entering the hospital 10.5 times more often than people ages 18 to 29. The overall number of patients hospitalized has also been at a plateau for several weeks. However, numbers remain significantly lower than at the nation's peak, when there were more than 160,000 patients hospitalized with the virus.
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