Dr. Fauci: Unvaccinated People Account For 99.2% of US COVID Deaths

“It's really sad and tragic that most all of these [deaths] are avoidable and preventable,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“The overwhelming proportion of people who get into trouble are the unvaccinated, which is the reason why we say this is really entirely avoidable and preventable,” he added.

Fauci noted, however, that the US is “very fortunate” it has “enough vaccines to vaccinate essentially everybody in the country. And there are people throughout the world who would do anything to get vaccines.”

The United States has registered over 605,000 deaths in the pandemic, the highest national toll in the world, according to NBC News.