Today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new data from Los Angeles County collected from May to July, which show unvaccinated people were 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than vaccinated peers and 29 times more likely to be hospitalized for their infections.It's more evidence that the pandemic in the United States is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH at a White House press briefing today."The data reminds us that if you are not vaccinated you are the highest at risk," said Walensky.
The study included analysis of the 43,127 SARS-CoV-2 infections in residents of Los Angeles County, California, of which 10,895 (25.3%) were in