Coronavirus: unvaccinated people 16 times more likely to die, Australian report says
- Health data from Australia’s New South Wales state showed only 11 per cent of people who died from Covid-19 over four months were fully vaccinated
- Elsewhere, Singapore will stop footing medical bills of Covid-19 patients who are unvaccinated by choice, while thousands have protested against NZ’s vaccine mandates
The data from NSW health department out late on Monday showed only 11 per cent of people out of 412 who died from the Delta outbreak over four months through early October were fully vaccinated. The average age of those deaths was 82.
Only around 3 per cent of people in intensive care units had two doses, while more than 63 per cent of the 61,800 cases detected between June 16 and October 7 were unvaccinated.
“Young people with two doses of a vaccine experienced lower rates of infection and almost no serious disease, while those unvaccinated in this age group were at greater risk of developing Covid-19 and needing hospitalisation,” NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said.
The report’s findings were in line with data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which said in September that unvaccinated individuals were 11 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than those who were fully vaccinated.