The people that did the right thing by being vaccinated were undone with Delta and more so with Omicron. Masks are still vital for EVERYONE, including children.
Those that didn't wear masks, didn't social distance and didn't use hand hygiene, exposed Americans that carried out all the precautions including vaccinations.
These California deaths are a direct result of a mutated COVID-19 virus that spread through the USA like wildfire because of the high number of unvaccinated. This is what right wing politics have done to the people of this country.
The political right wing of the USA refuses to accept leadership and only believe in social anarchy. These deaths are their responsibility as the virus was given a great deal of opportunity to mutate and become more and more dangerous.
These statistics appeared in The Mercury News today, we still don't know what AB2 will do. It spreads easier than omicron. California is a state with 39 and a half million people. The reliability of the information California collects is extremely correct in any reflection on the viruses.
For Americans that want to stay alive without the effects of the disease continue to wear masks, but, in particular N-95 masks. With N-95 masks it doesn't matter if others in the room are wearing them or not. The N-95 mask will protect the wearer as well as others.
By John Woolfolk
During a three-week stretch at the height of this winter’s devastating omicron case surge, Santa Cruz County health officials lost 10 patients to COVID-19. All but one were vaccinated, and five had received booster shots.As the omicron wave recedes, California data reveal an unsettling trend. Compared to the delta variant case surge last summer, deaths among the vaccinated rose sharply with omicron, a variant said by many experts to cause milder illness.
A Bay Area News Group analysis of state COVID-19 deaths found that in the four deadliest weeks of the delta and omicron surges, the number of unvaccinated people who died were nearly identical, and far higher than the totals for the vaccinated. Even so, three times more vaccinated people died during the omicron peak than during delta’s heyday.
“We’ve seen some chinks in the armor of vaccines that we didn’t see before,” said Santa Cruz County Deputy Health Officer Dr. David Ghilarducci. “As good as the vaccines are, they’re not 100% protection.”...
