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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf US had matched vaccination coverage of European countries, Covid hospitalizations would be half
Compared to the rest of the world the US has a poor vaccination rate
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If the US had matched vaccination coverage of leading European countries, it would have *halved* its Covid hospitalizations
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If US had matched vaccination coverage of European countries, Covid hospitalizations would be half (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2022
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SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)1. Shithole Country nt
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)2. Look at Russia!
I follow Worldometers and Russia is seeing huge new highs every day now. I know they are anti-vax and they are dying in large numbers.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/
keep_left
(1,793 posts)5. I remember Russia being a complicated story when it comes to anti-vaxxers...
...but the oversimplified version = the intractable corruption in that society results in basically no one trusting a thing that the government says. So they have a very good vax (Sputnik V) but they can't get it into peoples' arms.
doc03
(35,407 posts)3. How many thousands more deaths?
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)4. This is why other countries reported Omicron
was mild. When you have high vaccination rates fewer people end up in the hospital.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,725 posts)6. The US vaccination rate compared to the rest of the world is the issue
Compared to the rest of the world the US has a poor vaccination rate
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If the US had matched vaccination coverage of leading European countries, it would have *halved* its Covid hospitalizations
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