Apples and oranges: the NPR article was addressing the problem with unvaccinated people dying who were spoon fed misinformation about the vaccine. Here's another article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-misinformation-and-the-partisan-divide-drove-a-surge-in-u-s-covid-deaths
And of course you left something out from the KFF article that you cited.
"What explains the rising share of COVID-19 deaths among vaccinated people?"
"There are several factors at play here, including a rising share of the population that is vaccinated, waning immune protection and low uptake of boosters, and changes in immunity among the unvaccinated. New variants combined with a reduction in masking and other non-pharmaceutical interventions may also lead to more transmission, which can in turn lead to more deaths."
Like I said, your cherry-picking skills are highly evolved.
From the KFF study in the paragraph following your cherry-picked part ...
"COVID-19 vaccines are very effective at preventing severe illness and death, but they are not perfect, so deaths among vaccinated people will still occur."
From the NPR article .....
"if you tally up the number of unvaccinated people who died from COVID after vaccines were open to all adults last year, it's about 319,000 lives lost, according to a Brown University analysis. That is nearly one-third of all COVID deaths in the U.S., people who could be alive if they'd gotten vaccinated."
And from Dr. Johnson: "It's just heartbreaking, you know, when it was preventable."
The vaccines were never shown to be 100% effective in preventing death.