Omicron caused spike in deaths in vaccinated people, analysis finds, though unvaccinated remain most at risk

“It’s still absolutely more dangerous to be unvaccinated than vaccinated,” Andrew Noymer, a public health [associate] professor at the University of California, Irvine who studies covid-19 mortality, told the [Washington Post] newspaper. “A pandemic of — and by — the unvaccinated is not correct. People still need to take care in terms of prevention and action if they became symptomatic.”