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 ==== August 2021 ===
+North Carolina HHS
 The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services yesterday released new data in the weekly respiratory surveillance report showing that unvaccinated people were 15.4 times, or 1,540 percent, more likely to die from COVID-19 during the four-week period ending Aug. 21, 2021. This comes as the state hit a pandemic high on Aug. 26 with 912 adults in the ICU with COVID-19. The number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators also reached a record high at 574.
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 https://web.archive.org/web/20210827175603/https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/2021/08/27/adult-icu-patients-hit-record-highs-pandemic-new-report-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-more-15-times
+CNBC
+CDC study shows unvaccinated people are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid
+Published Tue, Aug 24 2021 by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
+Unvaccinated people are about 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, according to a CDC study released Tuesday.
+The new study also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than vaccinated people.
+The data is in line with comments from federal and state health officials, who have been saying for weeks that millions of unvaccinated Americans have been putting themselves at serious risk.
+https://web.archive.org/web/20210824192302/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-study-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-29-times-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-with-covid.html
 ==== September, 2021 ====
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 https://web.archive.org/web/20210910020809/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/09/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3/
+=== CNN ===
+As the US reached another major vaccine milestone -- more than 75% of adults have gotten at least one shot, according to the White House -- there's a growing question of how to deal with the unreachable vaccine opponents who won't get the shot no matter how dangerous that is for their families, neighbors and random people they meet.
+The hardest nuts to crack are either boldly declaring their opposition to the shot -- claiming a deeply held belief -- or walking quietly among us, hiding it from the world.
+In Florida, one doctor told patients she wouldn't see them in person after September 15 unless they're inoculated, according to WTVJ in Miami. Only 10% to 15% of her patients would be affected. The edict from Dr. Linda Marraccini goes against the spirit of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to protect the vaccine-hesitant from any kind of requirement.
+Protection from the state. Another governor trying to protect people's right to avoid the vaccine is GOP Gov. Doug Ducey in Arizona. Republicans who control the state government passed a law precluding cities and counties from imposing vaccine requirements. The city of Tucson, in an effort to preempt the law, which goes into effect September 29, ordered city workers to get the shot by August 24 or be suspended without pay. Around 300 employees -- a small minority of those employed by the city -- did not meet the deadline, according to reports at the time.
+Can Big Tech fix it? Apple, Google, Samsung and others are all working on their own versions of a safe vaccine verification repository, according to CNN's Samantha Murphy Kelly, who also points out the criticism that some of the existing apps aren't up to snuff.
+They are "allowing users to upload photos of their vaccine card -- or of anything -- and leaving the onus on business owners to determine if it's real. (To date, countless counterfeit vaccine cards have been sold on the dark web and US border patrol has seized thousands of fakes.)"
+The dystopian alternative is the Saudi government's phone app, which tracks Saudis' locations at all times and is required to verify vaccination at malls, schools and the grocery store, according to Bloomberg.
+Americans seem unlikely to ever agree to that kind of intrusion. But with their emphasis on freedom to be maskless and vaccineless in parts of the US, the entire country will pay a price, in lives and infections.
+https://web.archive.org/web/20210908005210/https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/politics/vaccine-requirements-what-matters/index.html
+=== PNAS National Academy of Science === September 28, 2021
+How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19: A Darwinian perspective -
+Emanuel Goldman -  Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers
+The real danger is a future variant, which will be the legacy of those people who are not getting vaccinated providing a breeding ground for the virus to continue to generate variants. A variant could arise that is resistant to current vaccines, rendering those already vaccinated susceptible again.
+Progress we have made in overcoming the pandemic will be lost. New vaccines will have to be developed. Lockdowns and masks will once again be required. Many more who are currently protected, especially among the vulnerable, will die.
+This dire prediction need not occur if universal vaccination is adopted, or mandated, to protect everyone, including those who are already vaccinated.
+https://web.archive.org/web/20210922041316/https://www.pnas.org/content/118/39/e2114279118
 ==== November, 2021 ====
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 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/17/biden-warns-of-winter-of-illness-death-for-us-unvaccinated
+https://web.archive.org/web/20211217053511/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/17/biden-warns-of-winter-of-illness-death-for-us-unvaccinated
 == Gov Jared Polis - Colorado ==
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 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/16/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20211217081807/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/16/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates/
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 ==== January, 2022 ====
+=== United States ===
+Chief Medical Officer of El Camino Hospital in [[:California]] revealed in a staff memo that at least 57% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were fully vaccinated, which is barely less than the local vaccination rate.((Jan 7, 2022 | [[:Steve Kirsch]] | [[https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/el-camino-hospital-cmo-admits-that?|El Camino Hospital CMO admits that 57% of their hospitalized COVID patients are fully vaccinated]]))
 Biden insists this is STILL the 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' and warns of a 'challenging' next few weeks
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 These coming weeks are going to be challenging. Please wear your mask in public to protect yourself and others. We're going to get through this.'
-Earlier in the day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated it guidance for when many people can receive a booster shot, shortening the interval from 6 months to 5 months for patients who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
+Earlier in the day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated it guidance for when many people can receive a booster shot, shortening the interval from 6 months to 5 months for patients who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220104201917/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368799/Biden-insists-pandemic-unvaccinated.html))
+=== College Campuses ===
+Cornell's COVID-19 dashboard once again shows high positivity rates (above 5%) during the first week of January.((Jan 7, 2022 | [[https://covid.cornell.edu/testing/dashboard/|COVID.Cornell.edu]]))
-https://web.archive.org/web/20220104201917/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368799/Biden-insists-pandemic-unvaccinated.html
+=== USA Today ===
+Biden to the vaccinated: 'You are highly protected.' Biden to the unvaccinated: 'Be alarmed.' January 4, 2022 by Jorge L. Ortiz, John Bacon and Celina Tebor
-=== United States ===
+Addressing the country before a meeting with the White House COVID-19 response team, Biden once again exhorted Americans to get vaccinated and boosted and to wear masks in public to avoid spreading and catching the coronavirus.
-Chief Medical Officer of El Camino Hospital in [[:California]] revealed in a staff memo that at least 57% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were fully vaccinated, which is barely less than the local vaccination rate.((Jan 7, 2022 | [[:Steve Kirsch]] | [[https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/el-camino-hospital-cmo-admits-that?r=o7iqo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web|El Camino Hospital CMO admits that 57% of their hospitalized COVID patients are fully vaccinated]]))
+“We have the tools to protect people from severe illness due to omicron – if people choose to use the tools,’’ Biden said. “There’s a lot of reason to be hopeful in (2022), but for God’s sake, please take advantage of what’s available.’
+Vaccinations, however, remain the strongest line of defense against the virus, even with omicron’s increased ability to cause breakthrough infections.
+“You can still get COVID, but it’s highly unlikely that you’ll become seriously ill,’’ Biden said. “If you’re vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protected. Be concerned about omicron, but don’t be alarmed. And if you’re unvaccinated, you have some reasons to be alarmed. You’ll experience severe illness in many cases.’((https://web.archive.org/web/20220105000825/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/04/covid-omicron-cases-biden-vaccines-tests/9084898002/))
+=== Pennsylvania ===
+“It’s affecting the whole hospital in terms of everything,” Fockler said. “We are treating patients that we would not be treating in the past because we have no place to send them.”
+All the hospitals link the surge to low vaccination rates.
+“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Csikos said, explaining that 83% to 90% of those admitted with COVID-19 have not been fully vaccinated.
+At Conemaugh Memorial, about 88% of those admitted during the first week of December were not fully vaccinated.
+“Being vaccinated against COVID-19 continues to be our best defense against serious illness, hospitalization and death,” the Conemaugh statement said.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220104192756/https://www.tribdem.com/coronavirus/doctor-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated-as-covid-19-surge-overwhelms-hospitals/article_6f5e3a84-594a-11ec-a9e3-0ba7ac1de948.html))
+=== United Kingdom ===
+The UK Vaccine Surveillance Report for Week 51((https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1043608/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_51.pdf)) shows that the vaccinated population accounted for 68% of Covid-19 cases between 6th December, 2021 and 2nd January, 2022, and 59% of those hospitalised, whilst the not-vaccinated population accounted for 32% of cases, and 41% of those hospitalised.((https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/11/boris-lies-about-90-percent-covid-icu-unvaccinated/))
-== College Campuses ==
-Cornell's COVID-19 dashboard once again shows high positivity rates (above 5%) during the first week of January.((Jan 7, 2022 | [[https://covid.cornell.edu/testing/dashboard/|COVID.Cornell.edu]]))
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 ===== Additional Technical Discussions =====
 [[:James Lyons-Weiler]] walks through the "switchpoints" for vaccine efficacy at which greater or fewer COVID-19 patients would be unvaccinated, with attention to the rapidly evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants.((Dec 7, 2021 | [[:James Lyons-Weiler]] | [[:Popular Rationalism]] | [[https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/who-gets-more-covid-19-vaccinated|Who Gets More COVID-19? Vaccinated or Unvaccinated? Here's How to Tell.]]))
+===== 2022 Targeting Babies Vaccinate the World =====
+Op-Ed: COVID won’t become endemic until we have a vaccine for kids under 5
+Los Angeles Times By Nina Shapiro - May 1, 2022
+Last week, Moderna became the first manufacturer to officially ask the Food and Drug Administration to approve its COVID vaccine for children under 6 years old. One of three companies with authorized COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, Moderna made the request a month after saying its data showed efficacy for two doses given to kids. This comes a few months after the FDA delayed its review of a vaccine for young children from Pfizer, which has not yet requested authorization, until that company collects more data.
+As with all things COVID, sentiments about vaccinating kids are strong and split. Millions of families with young children are counting the minutes until their infants and toddlers can get shots. Most, however, seem inclined to pass or wait — as of this January, just 31% of parents with kids under 5 in one survey said they would get their child the vaccination immediately after one was authorized.
+Right now, vaccines for kids might feel unnecessary even to families initially eager for their arrival. As we’ve emerged from the Omicron winter surge, and as we muddle through the yet-to-be-understood rise of the BA.2 subvariant that’s driving up cases but not hospitalizations or deaths, an estimated 3 in 4 U.S. kids have already had COVID. While we do not yet know exactly how prior infection affects immunity from future infection, nor the risk of long COVID, data indicate at least temporary protection, at least within a given surge.
+But the reality is, having a vaccine available to young kids is the only way for us to even begin to get close to COVID being endemic. Infected children spread this illness to vulnerable elders, immunosuppressed playmates and, clearly, to one another. Moderna’s recent data add to the wealth of evidence showing that vaccines provide a critical layer of prevention. Until every age group has access to this protection — which also helps shield their larger communities — we’re kidding ourselves that we have a handle on COVID as a regular, predictable illness. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220501102326/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-01/op-ed-covid-cant-become-endemic-until-we-have-a-vaccine-for-kids-under-5))