WASHINGTON â Here is perhaps the most important medical and political fact of our time: 99.5% of all COVID-19-related deaths in the United States occur among unvaccinated people; 0.5% of COVID deaths occur among vaccinated people. If you tell people not to be vaccinated, you add to the former category.
In this light, the recent outbreak of applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the United Statesâ failure to meet its vaccination target was macabre. Here were political activists â many of whom would call themselves âpro-lifeâ â cheering for the advance of death. How did we get to such a strange, desperate place?