The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency documented approximately 5,800 “breakthrough” cases of COVID-19 among the millions of Americans who were fully vaccinated, representing less than 1 percent of those who were fully vaccinated. is.
“The breakthrough infections of vaccines make up a small percentage of people who have been fully vaccinated,” the CDC said in a statement to The Hill. “CDC recommends that all eligible people receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as one is available.”
The CDC told The Hill on Thursday that about 7 percent of the recorded breakthrough cases led to hospitalization and that about 1 percent of the people who contracted breakthrough infections died.
The breakthrough COVID-19 infections reported to the CDC included more than 75 million individuals who were fully vaccinated in the U.S., and it occurs in less than 0.008 percent of the people who are fully vaccinated. Hospitalizations occurred in 0.0005 percent of all complete vaccinations and deaths in nearly 0.0001 percent.
Health officials, including the best knowledgeable infectious diseases Anthony Fauci
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“To date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in case of demographics or vaccine traits,” the CDC said.
The health agency calls on all eligible people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible and to take precautionary measures against individuals who have been fully vaccinated, such as wearing a mask and giving up social support to prevent them from contracting the disease.
The CDC said breakthrough cases of COVID-19 have been reported among “all eligible people of all ages.”
Most of the breakthrough infections occurred among women, and just over 40 percent occurred under 60 or older. Nearly 30 percent of the breakthrough cases among people who were fully vaccinated were asymptomatic, the CDC reports.
“CDC monitors reported cases for grouping by patient demographics, geographic location, time since vaccination, vaccination type or lot number, and SARS-CoV-2 lineage,” the agency said.
The federal agency has also developed a database for state health officials to enter and organize data on these breakthrough cases. “If available,” the CDC said, genomic sequencing samples would be collected to determine if certain variants caused the infection.
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is 95 percent effective against symptomatic cases in trials and overall 91 percent effective against any symptoms, and the Moderna vaccine has documented 94 percent efficacy against symptomatic cases in trials and the effectiveness of 90 percent in general six months after the second dose.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine recorded 66 percent efficacy in trials worldwide and 72 percent efficacy against moderate and severe COVID-19 cases in the US