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KFF: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States
Kaiser Family Foundation ^ | Jul 30, 2021 | Jennifer Kates, Lindsey Dawson, Emma Anderson, Anna Rouw, Josh Michaud, and Natalie Singer

Posted on 08/02/2021 7:23:46 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest

While COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19 and also reduce the likelihood of mild or asymptomatic infection, a small share of fully vaccinated individuals do become infected, and some become hospitalized or have died. These rare occurrences are known as “breakthrough cases” which are to be expected, and historically known to occur with other vaccines as none is 100% effective.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently monitors hospitalizations and deaths, from any cause, among fully vaccinated individuals with COVID-19, but not breakthrough infections, which it stopped monitoring as of May 1. CDC presents this data in aggregate at the national level but not by state, and there is no single, public repository for data by state or data on breakthrough infections, since the CDC stopped monitoring them.

We therefore reviewed the websites and other official state sources for all 50 states and D.C. to see which are providing data on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths, how regularly, and what those data may tell us. We only used data from official state sources (we did not include data available only in news media reports, for example). Where a state did not provide comparable data on overall COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, or deaths reported over the period in which it captured breakthrough events, we obtained data on cases and deaths from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard and on hospitalizations from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for the appropriate period (see methods for more detail).

Importantly, not all hospitalizations and deaths of those fully vaccinated and diagnosed with COVID-19 are due to COVID-19 or have a known cause at the time of reporting. The CDC reports that as of July 19, of 5,601 hospitalized breakthrough cases, 27% were asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19 and of 1,141 fatal cases, 26% were asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19. States differ in whether they provide this detail. DC, for example, reports that as of July 11, 50% of hospitalized breakthrough cases were due to COVID-19, 19% were not, and 31% were of unknown reason. However, few states made these distinctions. Where they did, we only included breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19. In other cases, some of these breakthrough events may be due to causes other than COVID-19.

Overall, we find that:

Half of states (25) report some data on COVID-19 breakthrough events (see Table 1). Twenty-four provide data on breakthrough cases, 19 on hospitalizations and on deaths. Fifteen of these states regularly update these data, often on a weekly basis. The rest use a different frequency, have one-time reports, have stopped updating, or have an unclear reporting frequency. The data reported from these states indicate that breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are extremely rare events among those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (see Figure 1). The rate of breakthrough cases reported among those fully vaccinated is well below 1% in all reporting states, ranging from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.90% in Oklahoma. The hospitalization rate among fully vaccinated people with COVID-19 ranged from effectively zero (0.00%) in California, Delaware, D.C., Indiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, and Virginia to 0.06% in Arkansas. (Note: Hospitalization may or may not have been due to COVID-19.) The rates of death among fully vaccinated people with COVID-19 were even lower, effectively zero (0.00%) in all but two reporting states, Arkansas and Michigan where they were 0.01%. (Note: Deaths may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)


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No idea how to get all the tables and such to post here, but there's a lot of data in graphs and tables at the link here: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/

This is all compiled from the individual states themselves. While there are some minor differences in the data (as you would expect), the overall trends are quite clear.

1 posted on 08/02/2021 7:23:46 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Excited to see that when you are vaccinated and test positive for SARS2 COVID 19 you can die from something non COVID. Big developments in medical technology and therapeutics.


2 posted on 08/02/2021 7:28:51 AM PDT by NotQuiteCricket
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

How are variants identified individually by testing? Colorado shows 6 variants active at this time.


3 posted on 08/02/2021 7:29:30 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Is that data for the entire Covid period (18 months) or data for the last 6 months or data for the last 2 weeks.

The only comparisons that matter right now is data comparisons that limit the data to the last month or so.


4 posted on 08/02/2021 7:30:03 AM PDT by BRL
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Think I will believe the Bloomberg report over a hyper pro-Vaccine organization like Kaiser, and I love my Kaiser Insurance, but I know how corrupt they are on this COVID-19 Scamdemic.

Wife got first shot, and then all the FACTS started coming out about the dangers involved.

Kaiser would not stop pestering her to get that second shot every time they communicated with her.


5 posted on 08/02/2021 7:31:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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That pretty dry sarcasm there!


6 posted on 08/02/2021 7:32:35 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

The flaw in this: all the data started on 1/1/21, when the virus was peaking, before immunity started kicking in, and very few were vaxxed. So of course the percentages are high.

April-June would be more pertinent: the conditions are changing daily. The December “Wild” virus is supposedly gone, replaced by Delta, right? And how are the vaccines working now, after so many got vaxxed months ago?


7 posted on 08/02/2021 7:40:37 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Dang those violent unvaxxed.


8 posted on 08/02/2021 7:40:43 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

The “vaccines” are working. They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu. Hysteria sufferers who get the vaccine overcome their hysteria and drop their precautions thus get the flu and help reach herd immunity. The success of the vaccinations is measured by the number of vaccinated who get the flu.


9 posted on 08/02/2021 7:59:49 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: SoConPubbie

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/02/report-40-of-nyc-department-of-education-employees-are-unvaccinated/


10 posted on 08/02/2021 8:00:41 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

antivaxxers are deeply saddened. This is what we are seeing on the ground in my area. Despite being labeled a high transmission. area we have relatively few hospitalizations and almost all those hospitalized are unvaccinated.


11 posted on 08/02/2021 8:03:34 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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The “vaccines” are working. They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu.

I don't know - I'm seeing some pretty severe outbreaks now (of the hysteria, of course.) Maybe a booster is in order.

12 posted on 08/02/2021 8:23:46 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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... almost all those hospitalized are unvaccinated.

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How many previously had covid and recovered?

Why is there literally no discussion of the millions with immunity and if the jab would have a negative or positive effect on them?

And almost no discussion of those harmed or killed by the jab?


13 posted on 08/02/2021 8:23:59 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!Trump Trump announced the coming appointments of bar in Milian)
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But wear your masks like good sheep.

Pitchforks and torches are the very least of what these people have coming.

14 posted on 08/02/2021 8:30:01 AM PDT by nonliberal (Trump 2024. Burn it down.)
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i do not think those that have had confirmed covid need the vaccine. I have no idea how many have been injured by the vaccine - vaers is a self reported unverified system. I have seen no data serious injury or death beyond the reports of myocarditis in young males. While i do not think we should vaccinate those under 18 and males under 30 should weigh the risks and benefits carefully, there are relatively few cases of myocarditis reported, they are usually mild and resolve completely. If you have a source of verified and investigated data please share it


15 posted on 08/02/2021 8:31:19 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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“ antivaxxers are deeply saddened”

That is a really disgusting statement.

And you state you are a are a medical professional? Shameful.


16 posted on 08/02/2021 8:36:26 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Mom MD

“ antivaxxers are deeply saddened”

That is a really disgusting statement.

And you state you are a are a medical professional? Shameful.


17 posted on 08/02/2021 8:36:36 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Mom MD
antivaxxers are deeply saddened.

There's something wrong with you. Seek mental help.
18 posted on 08/02/2021 8:40:42 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: BRL
The only comparisons that matter right now is data comparisons that limit the data to the last month or so.

In many cases, that's how they've been skewing the data. They're lumping the post-vaccine numbers in with pre-vaccine case-counts to make the infected post-vaccine case count look miniscule. That percentage changes pretty dramatically when you only use case-counts from June and July.
19 posted on 08/02/2021 8:45:54 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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I know its tough, but follow me on this. After working as a Hazmat Team leader for ten years... I received many times more vaccinations than most people. The worst side effect that I ever experienced was a sore arm. My wife was a department head at several multiple level care facilities some of whom lost dozens of people in a month during bad flu seasons. She has always been a strong advocate for vaccinations because they save lives.

These experimental Covid vaccines are an embarrassment to anyone who advocates for vaccinations. They have caused more death and injuries than all other vaccines combined in the last 30 years. The CDC is now calling for the vaccinated to mask up around others because the vaccines do not give adequate protection against Covid “variants”.

We are subjected daily to outrageous propaganda pieces such as this one based on misleading statistics compiled before the “Delta variant” was the prevalent strain. In double blind studies the vaccines are now performing no better than the placebos when up against variants. The only reason that most have not been discontinued is politics. The vaccines do not even protect people from getting Covid and there is no valid evidence that shows that “break through” infections have milder symptoms in an illness that is characterized by mild symptoms in the vast majority of those who come down with it.

The damage that these experimental "vaccines" are doing to people's perception of vaccination programs is profound. Millions will die in the future from preventable diseases because their trust in government agencies and drug companies has been shattered by the propaganda we are currently being subjected to. The numbers of deaths actually caused by Covid will be a fraction of these future deaths and serious injury.

20 posted on 08/02/2021 8:49:39 AM PDT by fireman15
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