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Looks like anti-science attitudes rule supreme in Texas?
Fig 1. “Daily Trends in Number of COVID-19 Deaths in Texas Reported to the CDC, per 100,000 population”, 2020–2022.
Modified from: Centers for Disease Control. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths_totaldeathsper100k_48. Accessed August 24, 2022. The arrow marker points to May 1, 2021 when COVID-19 vaccinations became widely available. Orange line is cumulative deaths per 100,000 population.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001173.g001
In fact, approximately 40,000 of the 90,000 COVID-19 deaths in Texas occurred after May 1, 2021, when any American who wished to take COVID vaccine could do so [3]. Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas DSHS) reports that 85% of COVID-19 deaths in Texas in 2021 occurred among the unvaccinated [6], while in the first three months of 2022 during the omicron wave the CDC finds rates of death in the US were 20 times higher among unvaccinated people compared to people who were vaccinated and had received a booster [7]. Therefore, the vast majority of the 40,000 deaths occurred among the unvaccinated. To put these numbers in perspective, just over 20,000 Texans lost their lives in World War II, while 6,000 died in the 1900 Galveston storm and flood. Approximately 4,000 Texans die annually from either gun deaths or road traffic annually, and 1,300 Texans died in its worst indigenous war, the Battle of Medina in 1813.
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001173
Fig 1. “Daily Trends in Number of COVID-19 Deaths in Texas Reported to the CDC, per 100,000 population”, 2020–2022.
Modified from: Centers for Disease Control. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths_totaldeathsper100k_48. Accessed August 24, 2022. The arrow marker points to May 1, 2021 when COVID-19 vaccinations became widely available. Orange line is cumulative deaths per 100,000 population.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001173.g001
In fact, approximately 40,000 of the 90,000 COVID-19 deaths in Texas occurred after May 1, 2021, when any American who wished to take COVID vaccine could do so [3]. Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas DSHS) reports that 85% of COVID-19 deaths in Texas in 2021 occurred among the unvaccinated [6], while in the first three months of 2022 during the omicron wave the CDC finds rates of death in the US were 20 times higher among unvaccinated people compared to people who were vaccinated and had received a booster [7]. Therefore, the vast majority of the 40,000 deaths occurred among the unvaccinated. To put these numbers in perspective, just over 20,000 Texans lost their lives in World War II, while 6,000 died in the 1900 Galveston storm and flood. Approximately 4,000 Texans die annually from either gun deaths or road traffic annually, and 1,300 Texans died in its worst indigenous war, the Battle of Medina in 1813.
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001173
