I’ve watched with some
horror concern at the change of trajectory in COVID cases in Wisconsin in the last couple of weeks, and figured the bad news would continue with today’s release from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Frustratingly, I was correct, as the 7-day average of new cases is now back toward 3,000.
Maybe it’s the colder weather, maybe it’s the waning of immunity several months after the first groups of Wisconsinites were vaccinated, but with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up soon, things don’t seem ready to die down any time soon. And it leaves a gloomy overhang in a time when it is gray and dreary enough, thank you.
But today’s DHS data had more important figures, which came in the
monthly comparison in cases and severity of COVID outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated Wisconsinites. You take one look at the numbers, and the disparities are obvious.
If anything, the disparities are even wider as those numbers suggest, because almost all deaths and hospitalizations among the vaccinated are with people age 65+, who are more likely to have significant health issues if they catch any kind of virus - COVID-19 or otherwise.
Among ages 18-64, you are between 9 and 17 times more likely to be in the hospital with COVID, and there are virtually no deaths among vaccinated Wisconsinites under 65. Even among the elderly, the non-vaccinated are 13 times more likely to die of COVID than those who are vaccinated.
Another disparity is where those cases are happening throughout the state, and take a small guess what that matches up to.
Seems like maybe you should stay at the deer cabin and not go wandering into that Up North town too much over the coming days, eh?
Getting shots to children between the ages of 5-11 is going to be a big factor as to whether we break this surge in the virus. Especially since for the first time ever in October, we saw the number of COVID cases among vaccine-eligible kids age 14-17 go lower than the number of cases in kids under those ages 9-13 (in yellow) and kids 4-8 (in orange).
Us adults that aren’t COVID-iots also need to do our part and get ourselves boosted now that it’s been 6-8 months since we got our first group of shots done. My wife and some of my friends have already done so, I’m getting jabbed on Friday, and all of the cool kids are doing it – which allows us the chance to do the things we want to do in the places we want to be this Winter.
We also need to directly be calling out the mental weaklings who have allowed the pandemic to continue through their own selfish refusal to listen to the science and the data because of…reasons. That isn’t Joe Biden’s fault, it’s the fault of misinformers like Ron Johnson and
the Former President who actively covered up information on COVID last year in a desperate attempt to give the impression that things were fine.
Those MAGAt lowlifes don’t care how much damage they cause to this state and this country by their self-absorbed actions, but we need to be making the spotlight shine brightly on them, and rightfully cast the blame where it belongs. This 3rd straight month of DHS data comparing vaxxed vs unvaxxed lays clear just how wrong and destructive it is to avoid vaccination, and any politician that still says the unvaxxed need to be “listened to and respected” are doing so for one reason and one reason only.
SAY IT, DEMS!
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