Trump said 1 or 200,000 might die and people called him a monster. 5x that now with bipartisan support. I know more people who got covid in the last few weeks than at any other point
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For comparison: In 2019 about 2.9 Million died in the U.S. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm).
The article also doesn't touch on whether these people died because of or only with COVID, not sure how it is done in the US but these numbers are often conflated.
As of February, the risk of death from COVID was 20 times higher for unvaccinated people than for those who were vaccinated and boosted, the CDC data showed.
Actually age is even more important, in Germany (I don't know the numbers from the US that well) more than half of the people who died with COVID were more than 80 years old. If you are 30 years old or younger you are more than a thousand times less likely to die because of COVID than someone over 80 years old.