During the Omicron Wave, Death Rates Soared for Older People

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By BY BENJAMIN MUELLER AND ELEANOR LUTZ from NYT Health https://ift.tt/jswZ5Cu
via IFTTT Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus Delta Variant, Disease Rates, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Deaths (Fatalities), Elderly, Vaccination and Immunization, Nursing Homes, your-feed-science Last year, people 65 and older died from Covid at lower rates than in previous waves. But with Omicron and waning immunity, death rates rose again.

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