evidence: In a July 1 briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that "preliminary data from a collection of states" since January indicated that "99.5% of deaths from COVID-19 in these states have occurred in unvaccinated people." In a July 16 press briefing, Walensky also said, "This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," noting that "over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now" with COVID-19 "are unvaccinated." The Associated Press similarly reported in late June that "nearly all" — or about 99.2% — of the people in the U.S. who died from COVID-19 in May were not vaccinated. The unvaccinated accounted for nearly 99% of the COVID-19 related hospitalizations that month, as well, the AP said.