The most important facts for you to remember today: Less than 0.001% of those fully vaccinated have had a fatal breakthrough case. Less than 0.004% of those fully vaccinated have been hospitalIzed. The vaccines work. The vaccines are your best protection from the virus.
@jaketapper To simplify even more with current rates: In a town of 100,000 vaccinated people, 4 people will need to go to the hospital and 1 person will die. In a town of 100,000 unvaccinated people, 584 people will need to go to the hospital and 168 people will die.
@jaketapper It's amazing that getting vaccinated is so controversial now. The distrust of science and the government from the far right is at an all time high.
@jaketapper Long Covid is a slow motion disaster, especially in young adults and children. Hospitals now have physical rehab programs specifically for "long" Covid. Yes, these people may not die of Covid, but with long Covid, they may wish they had. PROTECT THE KIDS and young adults!
@jaketapper My son, who has the vaccine, was unknowingly exposed to 2 family members who tested positive for the Delta Variant for 48 hrs and tested negative for COVID….Twice. #DeltaVariant #GetVaccinated
@jaketapper @kathryniveyy Let us vaccinate our little kids now! I want the option to protect them and “early 2022” is much too late. It’s time for the FDA to figure out a new option for kids under 12 with delta here and kids going back to school.
@jaketapper It's protection from getting sick or dying from the virus. The part they don't want to emphasize is that it gives almost no protection from infection itself. So ironically, the endgame here will actually be natural herd immunity.
@jaketapper Today on #CNNSOTU you said. "To be clear, children are at a very, very low risk" when talking to the NIH director about Covid. The new Delta variant is proving to be very different. In Arkansas, our children's hospital is full of children very ill w/Covid, some on ventilators.
@jaketapper Thanks for this sobering info. Unfortunately it won't reach those who really need it. Those refusing to get vaccinated are selfish & self-centered. It's childish & B.S to claim freedom of choice. They're choosing to kill others, which they Do Not have the right to do. Period.
@jaketapper 99% of all people in the US that contracted COVID survived. Only 10% of our population has contracted it. .1% of our population has died from COVID. .1%. What percent of people that already contracted it are getting it again and/or being hospitalized/dying.
@jaketapper Agree but as soon as politicians and the media made the vaccine political it was all over. Shame on them all.