Those who received COVID-19 booster shots were 20 times less likely to die than the unvaccinated in October, according to new data from the CDC. Jeffrey Zeints, coordinator of the White House COVID-19 task force said “The more people get vaccinated, the less severe this omicron outbreak will be.” According to the latest figures, the vaccinated had a fivefold lower risk of infection and a fourteenfold lower risk of death in October, and the boosted were 10 times less likely to get infected than the unvaccinated.