How to Use unvaccinated in a Sentence

unvaccinated

adjective
  • On the road for the unvaccinated, a sniper would kill one of every 500.
    — Chico Harlan and Mia Alberti, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The half of the police force that’s unvaccinated doesn’t live in Bethel.
    — Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The unvaccinated are the people who are dying in the ICU from Covid.
    — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The risk of death from Delta among the unvaccinated was at least 10 times greater than the risk of death among the vaccinated.
    — Dr. Tom Frieden and Dr. Sharna Cash-Goldwasser, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • As of Tuesday, March 4, one 6-year-old unvaccinated child had died of the measles.
    — Andy Uhler, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But by now, much of the 14-day window for the vaccine’s use as PEP had closed for his unvaccinated contacts.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 6 July 2022
  • The goal now is to keep cases down and expand access to those at-risk who are still unvaccinated.
    — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The cap would only apply to the unvaccinated under the new regime.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The risk is often that one unvaccinated person can put the kibosh on a whole group trip.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Still, more than 3,500 people died in the last week of April and billions remain unvaccinated.
    — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Since the start of the year, Oregon has tallied 31 cases of measles, all in unvaccinated people.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease.
    — Angelo Fichera, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In some cases, unvaccinated students and staff may be required to test once or twice a week.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • In conditions like these, the role the unvaccinated could play in seeding outbreaks will vary.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Some unvaccinated patients are regretful in the face of the illness that could kill them.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Among them was an unvaccinated young man in New York State, this country’s first polio case in nearly a decade.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In rare cases, oral vaccine patients can shed the virus in their stool, which can then spread through sewage and affect those who are unvaccinated.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • For the first time in a decade, someone in the U.S. has died from measles — an unvaccinated child in Texas caught up in an outbreak that has sickened more than 120 other people.
    — Susan Kressly, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The city health notice states that those who are unvaccinated or younger than a year old should please consult their healthcare provider for guidance.
    — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Study after study shows that the kids who get hospitalized for Covid-19 are, by and large, those who are unvaccinated.
    — Megan Ranney, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Some of those developments -- most notably the emergence of the Delta variant and its ravaging of the unvaccinated in the country -- aren't Biden's fault.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • For unvaccinated people who are exposed, up to 9 out of 10 will end up falling ill.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The outbreak has led to at least 159 cases, mostly in unvaccinated children, and one death.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The science has shown, the data has shown that most of the people who are hospitalized are unvaccinated.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Most of those sickened are unvaccinated children, many of them young.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
  • But not all of those who are unvaccinated will be so fortunate.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Recently, Texas health officials reported the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, the first death from measles recorded in the U.S. in a decade.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In rare cases, the virus spreading through sewage can affect those who are unvaccinated.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2022
  • About 20% of unvaccinated people who get measles wind up in the hospital.
    — Patricia Callahan, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Forty cases have been hospitalized, and one death has been reported—a 6-year-old unvaccinated girl who had no underlying health conditions.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025

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