Is COVID Obsolete?

*** Going to the CDC website so you don’t have to. ***

I was reading about the FDA’s recommendation that drug manufacturers retool their vaccines for the Omicron variants of COVID-19 (seems a little late for that). Thought I’d check how deaths are doing to see what the current threat level is.

Turns out it’s imperceptible (chart screencapped from the CDC):

For the week ending June 25, here are the deaths per 100,000 people in each age group:

Age	Deaths per 100,000 People
0-4	0.0
5-11	0.0
12-15	0.0
16-17	0.0
18-29	0.01
30-39	0.0
40-49	0.04
50-64	0.06
65-74	0.09
75+	0.23

That means that if you were in a group of 10 million people between the ages of 40 and 49, only 4 would die of COVID. So, not terribly concerning.

No more DC cocktail parties for CDC and FDA management.