1 in 500 Chance

Chances of the average person dying from Covid are very small though your individually risk can be much higher depending on your health and age.

Either way, generally speaking, the chances of the average American dying from Covid are about 0.25% if you take the number of Covid deaths divided by the US population. The overall risk is quite small at less than a quarter of one percent but obviously it’s still greater than zero. Or to put it another way, the average American has about a 1 in 500 chance of dying from Covid.

Personally, those aren’t the kind of odds I’m thrilled to see but being vaccinated decreases your chances of dying from Covid by 200 times and turns it into about a 1 in 100,000 chance of death by Covid (1,500 deaths of fully vaccinated Americans divided by 166 million Americans who have been vaccinated thus far).

So with the Covid vaccine available for all adults, there’s very few logical reasons for someone to decline to get vaccinated, especially considering how much it reduces your risk of dying from Covid.

Anyone who comes out on the losing end of those odds and dies from Covid because they refuse to get vaccinated should be commemorated and thanked by humanity for removing themselves from the gene pool.