Response to Megan: Trust the science, not the politics.

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Covid Act Now

The CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has also stated that the risk of getting symptomatic infection when exposed to the delta variant was reduced sevenfold when someone was fully vaccinated, and she said there was a twentyfold reduction for hospitalizations and deaths. Champaign County has one of the higher vaccination rates amongst counties in the United States with 63.3% of the eligible population vaccinated (source: covidactnow.org and Champaign-Urbana Public Health District) and this percentage is likely much higher given that many of the student body received vaccines outside of Champaign. Common scientific principles assume herd immunity above 70% vaccination rate and we are very close to, if not already at, that threshold. These facts beg the question: Why are we treating UIUC the same way that we would treat a place with low rates of vaccination? The CDC recommendations are exactly that: RECOMMENDATIONS. It is up to us to use logic and data to dictate how we want to move forward based on the COVID situation we are experiencing. Not the COVID situation some random county in Arkansas is experiencing.

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CMS

As seen in the graph above, the number of cases has unquestionably gone up but the number of deaths has stayed flat despite the delta variant being the most prevalent strain currently in circulation. It is also worth noting that the Department of Health and Human Services states that 50 to 129 million (19 to 50 percent of) non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing health condition (source: cms.gov ). Despite that, the curve of deaths from COVID-19 has been completely flattened and has stayed that way even with the introduction of the delta variant in May. Why is that? It's because individuals who fall under that category are almost all vaccinated. TLDR: VACCINES WORK.

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