COVID-19 deaths show most infections were unvaxxed

Most of the city’s Covid-19 deaths and moderate and severe cases were unvaccinated.
Latest data from the City Health Services Office and the University of the Philippines Baguio Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DMCS) showed of the 397 deaths recorded from Aug. 18, 2021 to January this year, 299 were unvaccinated.
The unvaccinated also chalked up the highest fatality rate at 4.12 percent with 299 out of 7,255 unvaccinated individuals who contracted the Covid-19.
The city’s moderate and severe case records also comprised mostly of unvaccinated individuals.
Of the 329 moderate cases listed for said period, 180 were unvaccinated, 16 were not eligible for vaccination, and 16 more were not fully vaccinated.
Of the 79 severe, 54 were unvaccinated and three were not eligible for vaccination.
There are 82 fully vaccinated fatalities with 0.92 percent death percentage out of the 8,922 cases.
The partially vaccinated group listed seven fatalities of the 646 cases for a 1.08 percent death rate.
For the non-eligible, six deaths were recorded out of the 2,718 cases for a 0.22 percent fatality rate.
Those with boosters had three deaths out of the 1,519 cases or 0.20 percent death rate.
A mathematical computation of the city’s Covid-19 data also done by the UP-DMCS and the City Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the CHSO revealed fully vaccinated individuals in the city have 252 times less chances of dying compared to the unvaccinated.
It further showed the odds of dying among the unvaccinated are 109 times more than the vaccinated.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong said these data only show vaccines delivered on the promise of preventing severe symptoms, hospitalizations, and death. – Aileen P. Refuerzo