Shooting Ourselves in the Foot, Not the Arm

Wall Street is worried about the Delta Variant this morning. Cases have doubled, hospitalizations are increasing, and restrictions are being re-implemented threating the recovery. This is simply due to failure to vaccinate.

Here are some facts:

• Less than 3% of new hospitalized patients are vaccinated
• In Florida, that number is less than 1%
• 99.2% of all May deaths were unvaccinated
• As of 7/12, only 791 deaths were reported as fully vaccinated

Yet well over a third of the population is not fully vaccinated. In fact, here are the number of vaccinations per day in the US.

Basically, we are at a plateau. Until we get more people vaccinated, we will continue to shoot ourselves in the foot.