Texas study: Unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the vaccinated
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Unvaccinated Texans were 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and 13 times more likely to be infected with the virus from Sept. 4 to Oct. 1, according to a study released this week by the Texas Health Department.
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas's chief state epidemiologist, said that the study "quantifies what we’ve known for months."
"The COVID-19 vaccines are doing an excellent job of protecting people from getting sick and from dying from COVID-19," Dr. Shuford said in a statement. "Vaccination remains the best way to keep yourself and the people close to you safe from this deadly disease."
Nearly 29,000 Texans have died from COVID-19 so far this year, and 85.5% of them were unvaccinated, while 6.8% were partially vaccinated and 7.7% were fully vaccinated.