The proportion of Americans 65 and older who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 remains lower than in many other countries, and unvaccinated elderly people die from the disease caused by the new coronavirus at an “incredibly high” rate, according to an article published this year. week in The Atlantic magazine.
By 2022, three-quarters of patients with COVID-19 complications were 65 or older.
93% of the patients who died were over 50 years old, adds the magazine, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main federal public health service (1).
The US not only has a lower rate of vaccination of the elderly, but also a poorer health coverage for this age group, the magazine points out. In Britain, for example, 96% of people over the age of 65 have been fully vaccinated; in the US, the figure is 88.5%.
“Our vaccination and booster rates for people over the age of 60 and 65 are alarmingly low and put a lot of people at risk (…) of the risk of serious illness, hospitalization and death,” he told the Atlantic. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. He described this as one of the biggest “disappointments” in US performance.
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