Nurse whose unvaccinated grandmother died of COVID-19: ‘People have turned a medical issue into too much politics’

And though the weekly death rates in both categories have dropped considerably since peaking at 8 per 100,000 residents in early December, when vaccines had yet to be distributed, death rates of those not fully vaccinated have recently hovered around 1 per 100,000, more than seven times the rate for vaccinated people.