The Washington Post found that cases of COVID-19 are rising in places where vaccination rates remain low and falling where more people are getting their shots.

While the available vaccines are proving to be highly effective at keeping people from developing severe cases of COVID-19, practically all new infections in the United States that result in hospitalization are people who aren’t vaccinated.

While countries such as Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States boast of having more than half of their populations with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, India’s numbers remain below 20 percent.

A few weeks ago, he wrote, delta accounted for 2 percent of cases in the United States, but that’s now up to 6 percent and “will continue growing rapidly as a proportion of all infections, particularly in areas of the country and demographic groups that have lower vaccination rates.”.

So, what are the odds of developing a severe case of COVID-19 in the next 3 months if you are not vaccinated?

Cutler said that before vaccines were available, a person in the United States had about a 1 in 10 chance of developing COVID-19 disease over the course of a year, but those risks could change as precautions are relaxed.

Even though vaccine supply has outpaced demand in the United States, certain factors continue to increase the chance of an unvaccinated person contracting the novel coronavirus and developing a severe case of COVID-19.

The 7-day rolling average of new cases of COVID-19 is lower in the United States than any other time in the past year, so people’s chances of coming in contact with someone with the coronavirus are lower.

As the United States and other countries attempt to reach a level of immunity to the novel coronavirus, Cutler and other experts continue to urge people to get vaccinated.

“It is incomprehensible to me that people would waste their time calculating the odds of getting COVID in the next 3 months if not vaccinated rather than figuring out how they can get a vaccine as soon as possible.”.

Throughout 2020, major holidays in the United States, such as Memorial Day weekend, were quickly followed by surges in COVID-19 cases….