The fully vaccinated sector of American Samoa’s population has reached 68.9%.
In the latest Department of Health advisory, the public is reminded that Covid-19 vaccines work. “The Covid vaccines continue to be remarkably effective in reducing risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death.” It’s also effective against the Delta variant, says DOH?
It cites data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which shows that in August the risk of dying from Covid-19 in the US was more than 11 times greater for unvaccinated people than for fully vaccinated persons.
DOH wants to meet the goal of 80% fully vaccinated.
December 20 marks a year since DOH began administering Covid-19 vaccinations,