Fauci said 99.5% of all deaths to COVID-19 are in unvaccinated people.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said Sunday that it’s « inexplicable » why some Americans continue to resist getting vaccinated against COVID-19 despite information showing those who have not received their shots are at a higher risk of becoming infected with the Delta variant. « It is almost inexplicable why people, when they see the data in front of them, that they don’t get vaccinated, » Fauci said in an interview with « Face the Nation. » Nearly have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations have begun to tick up as the new has become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the U.S. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday the latest data reveals « two truths » about the state of the pandemic in the nation: Where vaccination rates are high, cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain low and in areas with low vaccination rates, those numbers are increasing.
