NYC Covid-19 Cases Versus Deaths, From 2020 Beginning to November 2021: NY Post

From New York Post, "There’s no safety in returning to COVID-19 lockdowns" by Jonathan S Tobin, November 29, 2021:

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, but you don’t have to be a libertarian absolutist to have noticed that COVID has been a gift that keeps on giving when it comes to the desire of federal, state and local governments to seize more power to deal with an emergency that never seems to end. 

While cases of COVID-19 have fluctuated over the past two years, the number of deaths has fallen tremendously in places where vaccination rates are high. As this chart of New York City shows, deaths increased along with COVID cases in the summer of 2020. Yet a year later, even as cases spiked, the number of deaths didn’t rise as much. Today, more than 85 percent of adults in the city are vaccinated and the number of deaths over a seven-day average since June has rarely risen above 20, with multiple weeks of no deaths. When Omicron comes to the United States, the number of new cases won’t matter as much as hospitalizations and deaths — particularly since South African medical officials say symptoms are usually mild.

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