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Unvaccinated Texans 40 times more likely to die of covid than those fully vaccinated in 2021, study says
A vast majority of Texans who have died of covid-19 since the beginning of the year were unvaccinated, according to a grim new Texas health department report released Monday.
The report from the Texas Department of State Health Services examined data from Jan. 15 to Oct. 1 and found that unvaccinated people were much more likely to get infected and die of the coronavirus than those who got their shots.
Of the nearly 29,000 covid-linked fatalities in Texas during that period, more than 85% were unvaccinated individuals. Nearly 7% of the deaths were among partially vaccinated people, while nearly 8% were fully vaccinated.
The figures highlight just how much more at risk the unvaccinated population has been this year: In all age groups, the state's unvaccinated were 40 times more likely to die than fully vaccinated people. The study also found that the unvaccinated in all age groups were 45 times more likely to have a coronavirus infection than fully vaccinated people. It also looked closely at data from September and underlined the impact of the highly contagious delta variant, which fueled a surge in Texas, as it did in much of the country.
he new report from Texas also breaks out findings from the weeks between Sept. 4 and Oct. 1, which the health department said researchers wanted to analyze to measure the vaccine's effectiveness as the delta variant surged in the state.
In that time frame, unvaccinated people were 20 times more likely to die for a reason related to covid than fully vaccinated people, and were 13 times more likely to become infected with the virus than the fully vaccinated.
At the end of the conversation, Sorkin noted that McConaughey's team wanted to clarify that he hadn't been referring to the vaccine for children 12 and older, which was approved over the summer. Instead, he had meant the vaccine for 5-to-11-year-olds, which from the CDC on Nov. 2. "He said he's gonna think a lot more about the information as it becomes available," Sorkin said.
