Unvaccinated Texans make up vast majority of COVID-19 cases and deaths during the year 2021

This article illustrate that the most of deaths and COVID-19 positive cases were reported in people who are unvaccinated. So this report prove the efficacy of vaccination in preventing the deaths due to COVID-19 and the positive cases. The report suggests that hesitant and dubious people should go for the vaccination.

About 53% of the Texas population is fully vaccinated. More than 70,000 Texans have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

New data from the Texas health department released Monday proves  that COVID-19 vaccine dramatically prevents death and is the best thing to prevent transmission of the deadly virus in the body.

Out of nearly 29,000 Texans who have died from COVID-related illnesses since January, only 8% of them were fully vaccinated against the virus, according to a report detailing the Texas Department of State Health Services’ report.

According to the report more than half of those deaths among vaccinated people were among Texicans older than 75, the age group that is most vulnerable to the virus.

We learnt that vaccines were going to have a protective effect on a large segment of our population,” said Dr. Jennifer A. Shuford, state epidemiologist. “By looking at our own population and seeing what the impact of the vaccines have been on that population, we’re hoping just to be able to reach people here in Texas and show them the difference that being fully vaccinated can make in their lives and for their communities.”

The state health department study covers the positive cases and COVID-19 deaths which were reported in Texas among residents from Jan. 15 to Oct. 1. It’s the first time state officials have been able to statistically measure the true impact of the vaccine on the pandemic in Texas — which has one of the highest death tolls in the nation. The 16 years Texans become eligible for vaccination till March of this year.

State health officials found the vaccine greatly reduced the risk of virus transmission, including the highly contagious delta variant.

Only 3% of 1.5 million positive COVID-19 tests examined since mid-January occurred in already vaccinated people.

State researchers matched electronic lab reports and death certificates with state immunization records, and measured cases and deaths since mid-January. The first shots were administered in Texas during December.

Shuford told that study was done using data similar to those used by other states that conducted similar studies and methods recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And while the outcome was not particularly surprising, Shuford said, officials hope that the new data will increase trust in the benefits of the vaccination.

“Texas is a unique place; it’s got a lot of diversity, geographic and population-wise,” Shuford said. “We know that some people want to see actual numbers and that they want to see it for their own community. And so we are hoping that this reaches some of those people who have been hesitant and really just questioning the benefits of the vaccines.” Report clearly suggests that such hesitant people should go for the vaccination.

In Texas there is precise information about vaccinations. There is a record for every single COVID-19 vaccine dose of the name and age of the person who received including the date it was administered. All vaccinations are not regularly kept by a state registry in Texas, because it’s a voluntary system.

However, state officials don't have the data of how many vaccinated people were hospitalized with COVID-19 because hospitals are not required to provide that level of data under state law.

However state’s largest hospitals reported that the at least 90 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated.