Here's a not-at-all comprehensive list of everything that is now demographically more dangerous to a fully vaccinated adult than the novel coronavirus
were killed in automobile collisions. Every day, this means that the average Canadian has a roughly 1 in 7 million chance of ending up as a traffic fatality before the day’s end. By contrast, every day the average fully vaccinated Canadian adult has a one in 16.6 million chance of becoming a COVID-19 fatality.
Given the regular preponderance of Canadian road traffic deaths, it’s safe to assume that the number of fully vaccinated Canadians who have died in car crashes is already well above the number who have died from breakthrough COVID-19 infections.from either pneumonia or influenza. At its worst, COVID-19 was far deadlier than the flu, racking up 10,000 Canadian deaths in only six months in spite of unprecedented interventions to slow infection.
But the calculus has shifted dramatically for the fully vaccinated. As of Monday, 21.1 million Canadians are fully vaccinated. In an average year, any group of 21.1 million Canadians could expect to see about 3,800 among them killed by flu or pneumonia. While many of those would probably be suffering from other complications , the same is true of many COVID-19 deaths.Article content
Given that only 85 Canadians died of breakthrough COVID-19 infections in the first six months since mass vaccination began, if these trends continue throughout 2021, COVID-19 breakthrough deaths will remain only a fraction of Canada’s usual toll for infectious respiratory disease. Chart compiling B.C. COVID-19 data from June 15 to July 15. As the B.C. Centre for Disease Control said, “most of the cases,hospitalizations anddeaths over the pastmonth were amongunvaccinated individuals.”Even at its worst, COVID-19 could not touch cancer’s position as Canada’s leading killer. At 80,000 Canadian
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