New CDC study says unvaccinated 4.5 times more likely to get COVID-19, 11 times more likely to die
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported on Friday saidthat a new study has found that unvaccinated individuals are four-and-a-half times more likely to contract COVID-19 and eleven times more likely to die from it.
CDC Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky discussed the findings at a White House COVID-19 response team briefing on Friday. She said that the study, published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), evaluated over six hundred thousand people with COVID-19 from April through mid-July.
Walensky also said that the seven-day average of daily deaths from COVID-19 remains over one thousand.
The data comes one day after USPresident Joe Biden unveiled a six step plan to combat COVID-19 that includes measures such as requiring some employers to impose vaccination mandates or mandatory testing, making available more over-the-counter at-home coronavirus tests and expanding the government's free testing program.