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Commentary By John Tierney

If You’re Vaxxed, You’re More Likely to Be Killed by Lightning than Die of COVID: Study

Before you down another mask or disinfect another surface, before you cheer on politicians and school officials enforcing mandates, consider your odds of a fatal COVID case once you’ve been vaccinated.

Those odds can be gauged from a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They tracked more than 1 million vaccinated adults in America over most of last year, including the period when the Delta variant was surging, and classified victims of COVID according to risk factors such as being over 65, being immunosuppressed or suffering from diabetes or chronic diseases of the heart, kidney, lungs, liver or brain.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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John Tierney, a contributing editor for City Journal, is the co-author of “The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.” Adapted from City Journal.

This piece originally appeared in New York Post