As of August 24, Massachusetts public health officials have reported a total of 15,739 breakthrough cases of COVID-19, and the Department of Public Health recorded more than 3,098 breakthrough cases last week.
As of August 14, a total of 131 breakthrough cases had died from the disease, an increase of 7 from the previous week, when the state announced the death of 124 fully vaccinated people.
Breakthrough cases are defined as COVID-19 cases that have been fully vaccinated against the virus.
The department reported in its weekly breakthrough cases that as of August 21, of the 4.5 million fully vaccinated residents of Massachusetts, 15,739 had been infected.
Of the fully vaccinated infected persons, 571 were hospitalized, an increase of 75 from the previous week, and 131 of them were reported to have died. DPH.
The latest figures show that 0.35% of fully vaccinated people tested positive for COVID-19, 0.01% of vaccinated people were hospitalized, and 0.003% of vaccinated people died from the disease.
With another 1,290 confirmed coronavirus cases and 16 deaths, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the pandemic has increased to 699,177 and the death toll has increased to 17,825.
Although breakthrough cases are being reported, officials say that most new patients, especially those with severe infections, have not been vaccinated. On Tuesday, the 7-day average positive test results for the Commonwealth climbed to 2.72%. It exceeded 30%, but dropped below 0.5%, until the delta variant started to soar.
Since July 4th, the number of hospitalizations in Massachusetts hospitals has surged, from 80 COVID-19 patients to more than 500 on Monday.
As of Tuesday, Massachusetts has received more than 9 million doses of vaccine, of which the first dose was 4.7 million doses, and the second dose of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines was less than 4.2 million doses. More than 299,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-time vaccine have been given.
State officials and medical professionals have ensured that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and encourage everyone to get the vaccine.
Even if people who are vaccinated can still be infected with COVID-19, in fully vaccinated people, the symptoms of the virus will be severely weakened, and breakthrough cases rarely result in hospitalization or death.It is said that breakthrough infections can cause Mild symptoms, Some people may have no symptoms at all.
The decision is expected to trigger a new wave of mandatory vaccine requirements in the United States
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