This is all correct but misleading. CDC HAS NOT STOPPED TRACKING BREAKTHROUGH CASES THAT WERE HOSPITALIZED.Covid Breakthrough Cases: Bloomberg Identifies 100,000 Cases as Delta Rises - Bloomberg
CDC Scaled Back Hunt for Breakthrough Cases Just as the Delta Variant Grew
Bloomberg identified more than 100,000 vaccine breakthroughs
The U.S. agency leading the fight against Covid-19 gave up a crucial surveillance tool tracking the effectiveness of vaccines just as a troublesome new variant of the virus was emerging.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped comprehensively tracking what are known as vaccine breakthrough cases in May, the consequences of that choice are only now beginning to show.
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Just so you'll know, As of July 26, 2021, The percent fully vaccinated that have been hospitalized due to Covid breakthrough infections, all variants, and have died, relative to the >163,000,000 million fully vaccinated living in 49 States and U.S. territories, is 0.000005.8 % !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Please get vaccinated today. Don't take such a foolish attitude, it might cost you your life. Vaccination is the best protection. The Delta variant is very contagious, is infecting young as well as old, and those that are not vaccinated are getting extremely sick and dying from it at an alarming rate. The New Orleans Children's hospital has its ICU beds full of pediatric cases!
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CDC is STILL Tracking Breakthrough cases but, since May, only those requiring hospitalization. In other words it stopped tracking those testing positive that had been vaccinated but did not get sick, or did not get sick enough to require hospitalization. This is of course the bilk of the breakthrough cases. Here is what the CDC has to say about this:
From the CDC:
Identifying and investigating hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases
As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause. This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance.
Previous data on all vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC from January–April 2021 are available.
State health departments report vaccine breakthrough cases to CDC. CDC now monitors reported hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases for clustering by patient demographics, geographic location, time since vaccination, vaccine type, and SARS-CoV-2 lineage. Reported data include hospitalized or fatal breakthrough cases due to any cause, including causes not related to COVID-19.
To the fullest extent possible, respiratory specimens that test positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA are collected for genomic sequencing to identify the virus lineage that caused the infection.
Some health departments may continue to report all vaccine breakthrough cases to the national database and can continue to submit specimens to CDC for sequencing. However, CDC will focus its monitoring on reported hospitalized and fatal cases.
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