EXCLUSIVE: Vaccinated Making Up Higher Proportion of COVID-19 Metrics in US
EXCLUSIVE: Vaccinated Making Up Higher Proportion of COVID-19 Metrics in US
Vaccinated people are more likely than the unvaccinated in recent months to be a COVID-19 case, hospitalization, or death in 25 states, according to an Epoch Times investigation.
In 14 states, the percentage of one or more so-called breakthrough metrics—post-vaccination cases, hospitalizations, and/or deaths—in recent months exceeded the percentage of the population that was vaccinated or fully vaccinated.
In most cases, that was a single metric. But in several, it was multiple, and in one, it was all three.
All data are from 2022. Only percentages were available for some states. Data for June were preferred, followed by data for July. Metrics are only listed if they exceed the percentage of vaccinated.
Alaska* (March): 3,995 breakthrough cases (64.5 percent of cases)
Vaccinated at the time: 59.1 percent of 5 and up
Idaho+ (June 6–July 3): 89 breakthrough hospitalizations (53 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 52 percent
Kentucky* (June): 55 breakthrough deaths (67 percent)
Vaccinated at the time: 66 percent
Louisiana– (Aug. 7): 61 percent breakthrough deaths
Vaccinated at the time: 52 percent full, 6 percent partial
Minnesota+ (June 5–July 3): 29,660 breakthrough cases (71 percent); 107 breakthrough deaths (80 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 66 percent
Mississippi* (April 1–Aug. 1): 54 percent of breakthrough deaths
Vaccinated at the time: 51.7 percent
Oklahoma* (June 5–July 5): 277 breakthrough hospitalizations (64 percent)
Vaccinated at the time, 5 and older: 51 percent
Rhode Island+ (June): 22 breakthrough deaths (76 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 75.6 percent
South Dakota* (June): 141 breakthrough hospitalizations (74 percent); 8 breakthrough deaths (66.6 percent)
Vaccinated at the time: 58 percent
Utah+ (June 5–June 26): 17,856 breakthrough cases (67 percent); 623 hospitalizations (67 percent)
Fully vaccinated as of Aug. 8: 62 percent
Vermont+ (June): 32 breakthrough hospitalizations (84 percent); 10 breakthrough deaths (91 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 78.6 percent
West Virginia+ (July 31): 175 breakthrough hospitalizations (55 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 53.5 percent
Wisconsin+** (June): 31,702 breakthrough cases (65 percent); 634 breakthrough hospitalizations (64 percent); 69 breakthrough deaths (66 percent)
Fully vaccinated at the time: 61.5 percent
Wyoming+ (June): 3,672 breakthrough cases (62 percent); 9 breakthrough deaths (52 percent)
Fully vaccinated as of Aug. 15 (46.8 percent)