State health departments across the country are not publishing data on breakthrough cases and hospitalizations.
QUICK FACTS:
- 35 U.S. states have disclosed “some” data on fully vaccinated people who later contracted COVID-19 (celled ‘breakthough’ cases), according to The Hill.
- But figures on breakthrough cases “are not available on the health department websites, social media or other publicly accessible sites for the other 15 states.”
- New York, Texas, and Wisconsin did provide the numbers upon request from The Hill.
THE 15 STATES NOT PUBLISHING BREAKTHROUGH CASE DATA:
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New York
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Wisconsin.
REPORTED BREAKTHROUGH CASES:
- Of the states already reporting data, Utah reports 5,265 breakthrough cases.
- Tennessee’s Department of Health says that as of July 29, “the state had reported 31 breakthrough deaths and 218 breakthrough hospitalizations,” but the state “does not specify when it started collecting COVID-19 breakthrough data.”
- Illinois recently reported 714 breakthrough hospitalizations and 180 deaths.
- The CDC reported 10,262 breakthrough infections in 46 U.S. states and territories from January through April.
THE CDC ADMITS TO NOT COLLECTING DATA ON BREAKTHROUGH CASES NOT RESULTING IN HOSPITALIZATION OR DEATH:
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hasn’t collected data on how many vaccinated people contract the coronavirus since May.
- The CDC only monitors “breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths but not the total number of cases,” reports The Hill.
BACKGROUND:
- The vaccinated make up “85–90% of the hospitalizations” from Covid-19 in Israel, according to the Director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem Dr. Kobi Haviv.
- Israeli ministry figures confirmed 3,843 coronavirus cases in a single day, even though “over 5.8 million have received at least one vaccine dose.”
- 12 of 13 countries on Johns Hopkins list of most vaccinated also appear as “high” or “very high” on CDC Covid-19 travel risk chart.
