Breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been sensationalized and/or presented without the appropriate context by many news outlets. ‘Breakthrough infections’ are those that occur in fully-vaccinated individuals. In this post, we analyze data provided by ONLY official state sources, Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Dashboard, and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (not news outlets).
Here, we summarize some important takeaways on breakthrough COVID-19 infections.
The rate of breakthrough infections ranges between 0.01% and 0.29% for ALL 50 states in the USA (in other words, the breakthrough case rate does not exceed 0.29% for any state in the entire country).
Hospitalization rates among fully vaccinated people infected with COVID-19 range from 0.00% to 0.06%.
The death rate among fully vaccinated individuals is essentially zero in 48 states. The two states that do not have a death rate of zero in fully vaccinated individuals have a breakthrough case death rate of 0.01% (Arkansas and Michigan).
COVID-19 infections among unvaccinated individuals account for between 94.1% and 99.85% (depending on the state) of the total infections in the US.
95.02% to 99.93% of those hospitalized in the US due to COVID-19 complications are unvaccinated.
96.91% to 99.91% of Covid-19 attributed deaths are occurring in unvaccinated Americans.
Breakthrough cases are rare, expected, and have historically occurred with other vaccines. Serious illness and deaths in infected fully-vaccinated individuals are extremely rare. Vaccines are extremely effective in preventing infection, severe illness, and death due to COVID-19.
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Sources:
https://www.kff.org/…/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases…/…
https://beta.healthdata.gov/…/COVID-19-Reported-P…/anag-cw7u
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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