Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die of Covid and 6 times as ...

Unvaccinated Americans are significantly more likely to be infected by COVID-19 and die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Newly released data from the federal health agency show that the unvaccinated were 11.3 times as likely to die to contract Covid as vaccinated people in August.

What's more, people who hadn't received shots were also 6.1 times as likely to test positive for the virus during that month.

The disparity between the jabbed and un-jabbed reached its widest point during early August as the Delta variant-fueled summer Covid surge ripped across the country.

The CDC published data on the national positive tests and deaths per every 100,000 Americans on Thursday.

A majority of Americans are vaccinated with 66 percent having received at least one shot and 57 percent being fully vaccinated.

Unvaccinated people were are the highest risk during the week that ended on August 8, according to the CDC report, when 13.2 out of every 100,000 unvaccinated people died.

During that same week, 1.2 out of every 1,000 vaccinated people died from Covid, a rate 12 times lower than that of the unvaccinated.

The weekly death rate of unvaccinated people stayed above ten over every 100,000 until the last full week of August, ending August 29, when the figure finally dropped to 9.14 out of 100,000.

While the disparity between the vaccinated and unvaccinated has existed since April, the earliest date for which data is available, it greatly widened  once the Delta variant became dominant in the U.S. in late June.

Around this time, many health officials were referring to Covid as a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' due to how hard it struck them compared to those who had got their shots.