https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/with-omicron-dominant-covid-19-is-now-less-than-just-the-flu/ar-AASwlof?ocid=msedgntp About 48 million of the roughly 54 million American residents aged 65 and older are fully vaccinated, the CDC reports. So, for those Americans, risk of dying from COVID-19 was not significantly different from dying of the flu before Omicron came around.