Highly Vaxxed Portugal Also Has Highest COVID Daily Death Count in the EU

[Kamaji]

Highly Vaxxed Portugal Also Has Highest COVID Daily Death Count in the EU

By Bob Hoge
May 24, 2022

Can that headline possibly be correct? Yes; yes it can. Portugal has the second-highest COVID vaccination level of any country in Europe, trailing only tiny Malta, with 94 percent of its citizens receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. Sixty-two percent have opted for boosters.

But as of May 17, Portugal also has the highest case rate in Europe — a daily average of 2,290 new cases per million people. Globally, it boasts the second-highest new daily death toll among countries with more than one million inhabitants.

Columnist Daniel Horowitz of the Conservative Review points out that we were told things would unfold quite a bit differently:

We were all told that the shots, despite their plethora of potentially deadly side effects, still protected against critical illness from COVID. However, again and again we are seeing the most vaccinated countries having their worst death curves (not just case curves) precisely after having boosted their population and with a variant that is much less deadly than some of the prior ones.

Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen. Portugal is faring so badly that the Portugal Resident is reporting that pharmacies will once again offer free rapid antigen tests.

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A look back at what they told us to expect:

Said Joe Biden at a July 2021 CNN town hall in Cincinnati, “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die.”

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Source:  https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/05/24/highly-vaxxed-portugal-also-has-highest-covid-daily-death-count-in-the-eu-n569312

[PeteS in CA]

I compared the Daily Deaths charts for Portugal, neighboring Spain, and France here, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries . Of the three, Portugal has the lowest Daily Deaths count.

[DefiantMassRINO]

I call misinformation Shenanigans.

Spain, Portugal, and France have similar per million death rates.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/

[PeteS in CA]

I call misinformation Shenanigans.

Spain, Portugal, and France have similar per million death rates.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/

By the site I linked above, Portugal's per-million death rate is a bit lower than Spain and France. But the OP article title referenced the "COVID Daily Death Count". Either way - the current Daily Deaths or the cumulative 2+ year per-million-population rate Portugal's deaths are less than those of Spain and France.

FWIW, I chose to look at the stats for Spain and France as those are the countries closest to Portugal (ignoring Andorra)

[mountaineer]

Ian Miller
@ianmSC
Has anyone figured out why cases are so high again in San Francisco, where ~95% of the population is at least partially vaccinated, over 70% are boosted, and mask wearing is higher than almost anywhere else in the United States?

3:44 PM · May 26, 2022·