Thursday, May 27, 2021

Breakthrough...

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on Tuesday, detailing just how many breakthrough infections have happened in the U.S. in people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. 

The report found that 10,262 COVID-19 breakthrough infections were reported to the CDC from 46 states and territories between Jan. 1 through April 30, 2021. 

There were some trends:

  • 6,446 (63 percent) were female

  • The median age was 58 years old

  • 2,725 (27 percent) of cases were asymptomatic

  • 995 (10 percent) of patients were hospitalized

  • 160 (2 percent) of patients died.

Of the patients who were hospitalized, 289 (29 percent) did not have symptoms or were hospitalized for reasons other than COVID-19. 

The median age of patients who died was 82, and 28 (18 percent) of those who died did not have symptoms or died from a cause that wasn’t related to COVID-19. 

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