Still, public health experts remain concerned at the considerable number of daily deaths. And there is worry that too few Americans have gotten a single booster shot, which is important to protect against severe illness.
Older residents are continuing to die at elevated rates. L.A. County’s COVID-19 death rate between May and July 2022 for those age 65 and older was significantly higher than during the same time period in 2021. The pandemic also continues to disproportionately affect poorer residents and people of color.
Unvaccinated individuals also remain at higher risk — both of being infected and of suffering the worst health outcomes of COVID-19. In July, unvaccinated Californians were 2.5 times more likely to get COVID-19 and 3.6 times more likely to die from the disease than those who had completed their primary vaccination series, according to theWhen someone, especially a person who’s unvaccinated, gets infected a second time, “you’re like playing COVID roulette. You don’t know if you’re going to get very ill at that point,” Chin-Hong said.
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