Coronavirus: Thread

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https://wirepoints.org/nearly-40-percent-of-all-illinois-covid-deaths-in-the-last-month-are-breakthroughs-what-gives-wirepoints-quickpoint/

Nearly 40% Of All Illinois COVID Deaths In The Last Month Are
Breakthroughs. What Gives?

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of WirePoints

Square this one up for us, Gov. Pritzker. On January 3rd, you said
that only 5 percent of COVID patients in Illinois’ ICUs were vaxxed.*
The implication was that Illinois is suffering from a “pandemic of the
unvaccinated.”

But since your comment, nearly 40 percent of all COVID deaths have
been breakthroughs.  Illinois has experienced 1,007 breakthrough
deaths over the last four weeks.

That’s a massive disconnect. How can the vaxxed make up so few of the
ICU patients – those most at risk of dying – and yet end up comprising
so many of the total COVID deaths?

Wirepoints can think of a couple scenarios that explain that
disconnect, but we’re simply not armed with the data that would allow
us to confirm them. IDPH doesn’t provide the hospitalization data we
need, let alone more detailed data on breakthrough demographics and
comorbidities.

Which brings us to the actual point of this piece: The governor
shouldn’t make comments that can’t be confirmed by publicly released
data from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

This is far from the first time this has happened. Gov. Pritzker and
Dr. Ezike have made statements throughout the pandemic that couldn’t
be independently verified.

And that erodes trust, if there’s any left.