If the vaccine is failing in the face of the delta variant then counting the percent of breakthrough cases since the start of vaccinations is comparing apples to oranges. Vaccinations began in December 2020 but the Delta variant didn’t reach WVa until May. You need current numbers. How many covid cases diagnosed to are breakthrough versus how many are among the unvaxxed. Furthe CDC policy is not to test vaccinated people for covid unless they are hospitalized and symptomatic so we don’t know how many mild breakthrough cases there are. In fact for all we know 90% of cases could be breakthrough. The CDC playing stupid games like this and cranking the CT threshold to 40 are the very reason why no sane person would trust them.
“ If the vaccine is failing in the face of the delta variant then counting the percent of breakthrough cases since the start of vaccinations is comparing apples to oranges. Vaccinations began in December 2020 but the Delta variant didn’t reach WVa until May. You need current numbers. How many covid cases diagnosed to are breakthrough versus how many are among the unvaxxed. Furthe CDC policy is not to test vaccinated people for covid unless they are hospitalized and symptomatic so we don’t know how many mild breakthrough cases there are. In fact for all we know 90% of cases could be breakthrough. The CDC playing stupid games like this and cranking the CT threshold to 40 are the very reason why no sane person would trust them.”
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I agree that Delta didn’t arrive to West Virginia until this summer. It started small in mid-July and remained smallish until it rapidly grew in August … essentially completely crowding out the other variants. To see the closest representation of Delta’s arrival and its effect on breakthrough cases, click on the below hot link.
Once there near the top you’ll see a header titled “Breakthrough Data”. Click on that. In the upper right of the breakthrough data page there’s a graph of “7-day Moving Average of Cases by Date”. You’ll see that in August the Breakthrough Cases took off with the arrival of Delta. They don’t break out the breakthrough cases by type of vaccine. If they did, I’m pretty sure the increase would largely be due to the lowered ability of the Pfizer vaccine to prevent infection by Delta. I base that belief on a large study done comparing Pfizer and Moderna results.
https://dhhr.wv.gov/COVID-19/Pages/default.aspx