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Offline Kamaji

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63% of NYC residents caught COVID-19, though half not boosted: CUNY poll

By Carl Campanile
August 23, 2022

Only half of New York City residents have received a COVID-19 booster shot even as nearly two-thirds reported catching the virus since the outbreak first arrived in the Big Apple in 2020, a new health survey released Tuesday reveals.

The rate of full vaccine and booster coverage across the five boroughs ranged from a high of 60% in Manhattan to a low of 34% in the Bronx, according to the poll of 2,500 adults conducted by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health by Emerson College.

The survey found that 86% of residents received at least one COVID jab and 60% of parents had their kids vaccinated.

The poll’s findings reveal the heavy toll COVID-19 has taken on New Yorkers, the initial epicenter of America’s contagious viral outbreak. More than 73,000 residents have died from the virus in New York State.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents — 63% — said they had been stricken with COVID-19, the poll found.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/63-of-nyc-residents-caught-covid-half-not-boosted-poll/

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Heavy toll my a$$!

NYC's population is about 9 million (source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/new-york-city-ny-population)

That means that, if 75,000 residents died (the article says "more than 73,000, so I'll round up a bit), the mortality rate was 0.8333% - a tiny mortality rate.

Furthermore, if 63% of the NYC population has had COVID-19, that means about 5.67 million people had it, of which 75,000 died, yielding a mortality rate with respect to total infections of about 1.3227% - still a very small mortality rate.

And since the data show that flu-related deaths fell precipitously, these deaths were not so-called excess deaths, but simply replacement deaths.

So, no, hardly a heavy toll.