COVID-19 weekly death rates by vaccination status in the United States, October 2021 to April 2023. (A) Weekly COVID-19 death rates per 100,000 people from October 2021 through April 2023, stratified by vaccination status: unvaccinated (red), vaccinated without bivalent booster (blue), and vaccinated with bivalent booster (green; available from October 2022). (B) Average weekly death rates per 100,000 people across the study period. Unvaccinated individuals had approximately fivefold higher death rates than vaccinated individuals without bivalent boosters, and approximately ninefold higher death rates than those with bivalent boosters. Data source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, processed by Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status.
