“I don’t know anybody who thinks we’re going to eradicate Covid,” Jha said.ĭr. A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases came to similar conclusions.Įven so, some Americans are still dying from Covid. data suggests that almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths have fallen into this category. The official number is probably an exaggeration because it includes some people who had virus when they died even though it was not the underlying cause of death. The C.D.C.’s main Covid webpage estimates that about 80 people per day have been dying from the virus in recent weeks, which is equal to about 1 percent of overall daily deaths. fromĬovid’s toll, to be clear, has not fallen to zero. A much smaller group, such as people who have received kidney transplants or are undergoing active chemotherapy, face higher risks.
Most immunocompromised people are at little additional risk from Covid - even people with serious conditions, such as multiple sclerosis or a history of many cancers. They are a more diverse group than casual discussion often imagines. One point of confusion, I think, has been the way that many Americans - including we in the media - have talked about the immunocompromised. That excess deaths have fallen close to zero helps make this point: If Covid were still a dire threat to large numbers of people, that would show up in the data. “There has been a lot of bad information out there that somehow if you’re immunocompromised that vaccines don’t work.” “Even for most - not all but most - immunocompromised people, vaccines are actually still quite effective at preventing against serious illness,” he said. That is also true for most high-risk people, Jha pointed out, including older adults - like his parents, who are in their 80s - and people whose immune systems are compromised. “We are at a point where almost everybody who’s up to date on their vaccines and gets treated if they have Covid, they rarely end up in the hospital, they almost never die.” Ashish Jha, who was until recently President Biden’s top Covid adviser, told me. Third, post-infection treatments like Paxlovid, which can reduce the severity of symptoms, became widely available last year. (About 97 percent of adults fall into at least one of those first two categories.) Second, more than three-quarters of Americans have been infected with Covid, providing natural immunity from future symptoms. adults have received at least one vaccine shot. The progress stems mostly from three factors:įirst, about three-quarters of U.S.
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