experiencing the deadliest bout of misinformation in all of our lifetimes, around precisely the vaccine. much of it coming from that push the lies from the met weapons of mass destruction, though they were not alone in that. here are the actual facts, according to the send out of the more than 187 million people have been fully backs in the u.s.. 0.00 zero 4% died from a breakthrough infection. that s pretty small. now to his credit, colin powell pendant but he waited up interact, the way we ended up interact, is not some phenomenally it s actually a key leg where equally monstrous deceptions about the pandemic are leaning towards needless deaths every day. michelle goldberg, who is an opinion columnist for the new york times. many house and streaming peacock. michelle, there was a moment where i saw the news about powell s death, and i was sad. and i reflected on his life,
a proper immune response. so when he was faced, although fully vaccinated, with a devastating disease like covid, his body was simply unable to fully protect him. this is not the typical case for the typical vaccinated american who has a normal immune system. he was suffering from a devastating immune disease and that made the infection all the more hard to combat. the cdc says among the more than 187 million people who have been fully vaccinated in this country, just 7,178 of them have died, which means we re talking about 0.004% of fully vaccinated americans have died of covid. i wonder what your sense is. could that statistic break through, making the case for people to get vaccinated? or are you worried colin powell s high profile death
about the vaccines, but as you talked about how multiple myeloma, the blood cancer he suffered from, could compromise his immune system. his age, 84, that makes him more vulnerable. but what about the fact he was a survivor of prostate cancer and the fact he was somebody fighting parkinson s disease. would either of those compromise his immune system? i think there s less data on that. with parkinson s, it may sort of make recovery difficult if someone has covid but it s not as clear cut of an impact on the immune system. someone being treated for prostate cancer because the treatments themselves, part of the way these treatments work is they suppress your immune system but i don t know he was actively being treated for that. it s less sort of clear there, but in terms of the fact that he had been vaccinated, to reiterate your point, jake, these breakthrough infections and we talk a lot about this, but there s some 187 million people roughly that have been vaccinated in the united st
the protect people like general powell. that s the message. you get vaccinated to protect people like him. to protect people who are more vulnerable. but also let me show you some numbers because this comes up over and over again. breakthrough infections and people say, hey, look, you know, i got vaccinated. still got a breakthrough infection. so what s the, you know, what s the real utility here? if you look at the overall number of people who have been vaccinated, about 187 million now and then you look at the number of deaths among breakthrough infections overall, about 7178. i don t know if we have the numbers, we can put them up, but the point is that yes, breakthrough infections do occur, but look how protective that is. out of 187 million people, there were 7100 deaths in those breakthrough cases. so it s really, really protective. most of the people, as you can see, are people over the age of 65. so we have a good idea of who these breakthrough infections affect the most and th
we pulled some of these numbers. i want to show this. data makes the point. of those 187 million, about 7,200 breakthrough infections that results in death. 85% of those among those over 65. not everyone who dies after being vaccinated die covid-related deaths but this next graph sort of makes this point, jake, that we ve made before that if you look over all the death rate among the vaccinated versus unvaccinated, look at that. that is the point. people keep saying, you can still get it. what difference does it make? that graph is the difference that it makes. you re far less likely to survive if you haven t been vaccinated. a hold up at u.s. ports costing americans more by the minute it seems. one of the main people trying to fix this logjam joins us. also he s the 25-year-old