Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Pilote. Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book.That’s how they have worked to fight other infectious diseases, such as polio and smallpox. That’s how vaccines work: they break the chain of transmission and protect the most vulnerable. The higher the vaccine uptake, the fewer the COVID-19 deaths and the less virus there is in circulation to cause breakthrough cases in those who are fully immunized. Some (albeit a tiny minority) who are fully vaccinated (but who don’t mount a strong enough immune response, because no vaccine is 100 per cent effective) are also dying. Some are hardcore anti-vaxxers who may also believe the Earth is flat, while others are victims of dangerous misinformation that circulates on social media.Įither way, they are keeping the virus alive at high enough rates that many who are unvaccinated are succumbing to the disease.
People are still dying from COVID-19 because there’s a small, yet persistent group of Manitobans who refuse to get vaccinated. I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. If it did, and reported such data on its online dashboard, Manitobans would get a far more accurate picture of how well vaccines are preventing deaths. However, it doesn't provide the proportion of deaths among the vaccinated and unvaccinated. It provides the cumulative number of vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths since the beginning of the vaccine rollout. It only reports the percentage of people who died from the disease who were fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated or unvaccinated in weekly pie charts. It refuses to release the vaccination status of individual COVID-19 deaths (citing privacy reasons). The provincial government does a poor job of providing that context. (Matt Rourke / The Associated Press files) Of those who have been eligible for the shot, but are not fully immunized, the death rate is closer to 25 per 100,000 people, more than 12 times the death rate for the fully vaccinated. That means of those who have been eligible for the shot, but are not fully immunized, the death rate is closer to 25 per 100,000 people - more than 12 times the death rate for the fully vaccinated. They won’t be fully immunized until January or February at the earliest.
That’s well above the two per 100,000 fully vaccinated who have died during the same period.Įven that doesn’t tell the full story (as some number-cruncher experts have pointed out).Īmong the unvaccinated, close to half are children under 12 who were not eligible for vaccines until last week. The 59 unvaccinated deaths since early October represent 16 per 100,000 people not fully immunized. It’s more pronounced than 75-25 per cent split suggests. Because most people are fully vaccinated in Manitoba, the proportion of deaths among the unvaccinated is far higher than the vaccinated. No one under 40 who is fully vaccinated has died from COVID-19 in Manitoba. Most of those have been people over the age of 70 (70 per cent), eight were in their 60s, three in their 50s, and one in their 40s. There have only been 40 fully vaccinated deaths since the beginning of the vaccine rollout a year ago. Out of the 78 recent deaths, 59 (75 per cent) were not fully vaccinated.
The short answer is coverage isn't high enough most deaths are among the unvaccinated. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press files) Out of the 78 recent deaths in Manitoba, 59 were not fully vaccinated. If 85 per cent of Manitobans over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated, why are there still so many deaths? Still, a lot of people are dying from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, far more than the number of fatal cases from influenza during a bad flu year. It’s nowhere near the 60 to 120 deaths per week Manitoba reported during the second wave, prior to vaccines.
It’s far less than the number of deaths the province logged during the third wave of the pandemic when vaccination coverage was lower. Between the first week of October and mid-November, Manitoba Health reported 78 new COVID-19 deaths in its weekly respiratory surveillance reports. Public health officials announced 11 new COVID-19 deaths Monday from the previous three days. The problem is, government does a poor job of communicating it. If immunization is so effective, how come we’re still seeing so many deaths? Manitobans are still dying from COVID-19 and some were fully vaccinated.