Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from COVID every week?

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More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are still dying every week.

Last month, an average of about 350 people died each week from COVID, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

While high, the number of deaths is decreasing and is lower than the peak of 25,974 deaths recorded the week ending Jan. 9, 2021, as well as weekly deaths seen in previous spring months, CDC data shows.

Public health experts told ABC News that although the U.S. is in a much better place than it was a few years ago, COVID is still a threat to high-risk groups.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-more-300-people-us-090201801.html

Now that they want fewer getting vaccinated, I'm sure the number infected will be higher.

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1. Approximately 58,000 Americans die every week

COVID accounts for approximately 0.6% of all deaths. By way of comparison 3000+ are dying each week from influenza and pneumonia.

Vaccination reduces but does not eliminate the risk of COVID serious illness and hospitalization. Moreover the CDC figures include the cases where COVID contributed but did not cause death.

So why are Americans still dying from COVID each week? A: It's endemic; And likely to be with us as long as influenza is still around.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

[Silent Type]

2. 700 die from Flu per week, according to CDC. In any event, vax should continue.

[UTUSN]

3. & almost nothing is played in the news. Aren't we in a binge of flagellation about reporting on BIDEN?

And KRASNOV's daily lawlessness is just "reported" on a tsk-tsk level.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Kind Of Lacks Context

It attempts to provide some with the comparison to 2021, but that's fairly weak.
15,600 deaths per year.
41,000 people die in car accidents, and one can only die in such an event if they are in a car.
620,000 people die of cancer every year. COVID, right now is less than 2.5% of that.
Finally, COVID is endemic. The vaccines were never expected to completely disappear.
The context I think is appropriate in the article is that said deaths are 1/84th of what they were at the peak.
That seems like a huge improvement & not the doom news implied in the article.