 All right, so I am well aware of the fact that whenever we talk about COVID-19 on this channel. It's almost always negative and There's a lot of bad news. It's a public health crisis a global pandemic Of course, there's not gonna be that many rosy stories having said that though this time in this video We're gonna break the cycle because we actually have some genuinely encouraging news So first of all COVID-19 cases in the United States are in fact down and they're down substantially So we've seen a 24 percent decline in new cases over the last two weeks Which signals an end to the Delta variant surge, which is great news now second of all We have multiple studies now confirming just how effective the COVID-19 vaccines are and they are very very effective So in early July researchers at Yale University and the Commonwealth Fund estimated that the COVID-19 vaccines have saved 279,000 lives because of these vaccines incredible and a report from the Department of Health and Human Services found that nearly 40,000 elderly lives were spared between January and May Because of the COVID-19 vaccines and they also prevented hundreds of thousands of new infections Now as Kenny Stenslop common dreams explains according to the study on the relationship between county level inoculation rates and COVID-19 outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries, which was conducted by researchers at the US Department of Health and Human Services vaccines helped ward off 265,000 infections 107,000 hospitalizations and 39,000 deaths during the first five months of 2021. That is absolutely incredible hundreds of thousands of lives saved because of the COVID-19 vaccines and 40,000 elderly lives saved During January and May that is truly remarkable the vaccines work And they're not just beneficial for you as an individual, but they're great for society as well In fact, they're really good for society because new research by British researchers at the University of Oxford Found that they also reduce transmission If you've been fully vaccinated You are less likely to spread COVID-19 to your peers now Dr. Akshai Sahel gives us the breakdown about this new data in an NBC news article and explains people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 are less Likely to spread the virus even if they become infected a new study finds adding to a growing body of evidence that vaccines can reduce Transmission of the Delta variant British scientists at the University of Oxford examined national records of 150,000 contacts that were traced from roughly 100,000 initial cases the samples included people who were fully or partially vaccinated with either the Pfizer Beyond-tech or AstraZeneca vaccines as well as people who are unvaccinated The researchers then looked at how the vaccines affected the spread of the virus if a person had a breakthrough infection with either the Alpha variant or the highly contagious Delta variant both vaccines produced transmission Although they were more effective against the Alpha variant compared to the Delta variant when infected with the Delta variant a given contact with 65% less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine With AstraZeneca a given contact was 36% less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully Vaccinated the risk of transmission from a breakthrough infection was much higher if someone had received just one dose of either vaccine So this is really really encouraging. It's it's great to hear It's another reason to take the vaccine if you don't care about yourself Then you should take the vaccine if you care about other people now This study has not been peer reviewed as of yet But researchers are confident that this is actually a very high quality study In fact, Dr. Aaron Richmond of the University of Pennsylvania says this about the study. It's the highest quality study We have so far on the question of infectiousness of vaccinated people and infected that are infected with Delta So this is really really encouraging news the vaccines are saving hundreds of thousands of lives and We're really privileged to have them to have them not just be free but widely available Especially considering there are people in developing countries that still haven't even been able to get their first dose so the fact that we have this here this truly speaks to the innovations and the amazingness of modern medicine things to Government funding as well, but it's important So the reason why I'm talking about this is because if you're one of the few people who watch the show that aren't Vaccinated and you come here just to troll for whatever reason. I mean the data speaks for itself This is actual science unlike the memes that you're sharing on Facebook by your racist aunts and uncles This is data. This is evidence So at this point with everything that we know with all of the data that we have available Anyone who's discouraging you from taking the vaccines any other youtuber whose video catalog looks like this They are not to be taken seriously in fact with the evidence that we have Confirming how effective these vaccines are this kind of misinformation at this point is bound to get someone killed But I mean when you have a conspiratorial right wing audience to appease You have to make some sacrifices and if you gamble with people's lives, I guess some people are willing to pay that price But for me, no, I'm not willing to pay that price. I want you to protect yourself and others I want you to get vaccinated. I don't care who you are if you're a right winger If you're a political if you hate me if you hate the humanist report I don't believe you should die when we have a cure We have a vaccine that isn't just highly effective as this research search shows, but it's also incredibly safe Millions of people in this country have taken it billions of people around the globe have taken it It's fine. I took it. I'm fine. I haven't spontaneously combusted But you know, some people have an agenda like Jimmy door Some people are incredibly irresponsible with their platform and they don't care if people die In fact, I don't know what Jimmy door believes, but he might believe that he's the one who has the truth But objectively speaking, he doesn't these studies show that the vaccines are incredibly effective And anyone who's telling you to not get them isn't looking out for your best interests They don't care about you. They care about views and clicks But this is a public health crisis and for those of you who are tired of all this talk of lockdowns and masks The quicker we all get the COVID-19 vaccine the faster we all Go back to normal, which I desperately want at this point I'm sick of the pandemic And if you're as tired of this nonsense as I am get the fucking vaccine So we're not in this perpetual state of plague forever. Now, thankfully again cases are down So I don't want to turn this into a negative video. So I apologize for digressing, but We've got to get the vaccine. It's available. It's safe And the best part about it is it fucking works really well