The Centers for Disease Control has finally admitted what everyone else has known for two years. When the China Virus kills, it mostly kills the old, the obese, and the sick.
And that statement holds true even when those demographic groups are vaccinated.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky confessed the truth on Friday’s edition of Good Morning America, and the agency released a report with the detailed data.
The Data
Appearing on GMA, Walensky said “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 per cent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities.”
The usual suspects turned that statement into an attack on the chronically il. That aside, Walensky was hardly divulging something most didn’t know. Presumably, now that CDC has fessed up about those for whom the virus is a real danger, we can believe our lying eyes.
The key takeaway is that for people afflicted with multiple serious diseases or health conditions, the vaccines might not work. Here’s what Walensky didn’t say: The more than 75 percent who suffered at least four comorbidities were vaccinated.
In a study of 1.23 million people from December 2020 through October last year, “had a severe outcome, including 36 who died,” CDC reported:
Risk for severe outcomes was higher among persons who were aged ≥65 years, were immunosuppressed, or had at least one of six other underlying conditions. All persons with severe outcomes had at least one of these risk factors, and 77.8% of those who died had four or more risk factors. Severe COVID-19 outcomes after primary vaccination are rare; however, vaccinated persons who are aged ≥65 years, are immunosuppressed, or have other underlying conditions might be at increased risk. These persons should receive targeted interventions including chronic disease management, precautions to reduce exposure, additional primary and booster vaccine doses, and effective pharmaceutical therapy as indicated to reduce risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. Increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage is a public health priority. …
All persons with severe COVID-19 outcomes after primary vaccination had at least one of the eight risk factors identified as significant in the model. The frequency of having four or more risk factors increased with disease severity, ranging from 18.8% (386) among persons who had nonsevere outcomes, 56.9% (87) among survivors who had respiratory failure or were admitted to an ICU, to 77.8% (28) among persons who died. Among 36 persons who died, 15 (41.7%) had do-not-resuscitate orders at the time of hospital admission.
The study looked at virus victims with these comorbidities:
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Chronic heart disease
- Chronic liver disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic neurologic disease
- Chronic pulmonary disease
- Immunosuppression
Those data do not mean that the vaccines did not help those who survived the breakthrough infection.
New York Data
Other CDC data belie claims that the unvaccinated will suffer a mass die-off this winter, as The New American reported in debunking President Biden’s alarmist message just before Christmas.
CDC reports that 95 percent of Americans 65 years or older are vaccinated. Yet 75.8 percent of those who die from the disease are also 65 and older.
That means that the majority of Virus deaths cannot be among the unvaccinated.
On the other hand, the agency reports that 86.4 percent of those 18 or older are vaccinated. Yet the data show few deaths in those under 50, and almost none in those under 40.
Because the virus rarely kills the young and healthy — meaning those who are not old, fat, and sick — one cannot conclude that the young and healthy who remain unvaccinated are at great risk of dying.
Data from New York have been clear on one point since the beginning of the “pandemic.” With few exceptions, the virus is opportunistic in that it most viciously attacks those weakened by age or poor health.
Of 49,484 deaths in New York, 48,590 — 97.2 percent — were among people 50 years or older.
And 91 percent of those who died, 45,450, had one or more comorbidities.
One of the key comorbidities is obesity.
A study from Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization found that in countries in which 50 percent of adults are obese, Virus fataltiy rates are 10 times higher than other nations.
“The report, which described a ‘dramatic’ correlation between countries’ COVID-19 death and obesity rates, found that 90% or 2.2 million of the 2.5 million deaths from the pandemic disease so far were in countries with high levels of obesity,” Reuters reported.
