January 27, 2022 5:30 p.m. 

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released on Thursday, reported 57,011 cases of COVID-19 during the week of January 16th to January 22nd.

OHA said of those cases, 40,594, or 71.2 percent, were unvaccinated people and 16,417, or 28.8 percent, were vaccine breakthrough cases.

The median age of the breakthrough cases during that period was 46. 98 breakthrough cases were residents of care facilities, senior living communities or other congregate are settings.  There were 1,469 cases in people ages 12 to 17.

OHA said to date, there have been 104,088 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. The median age of all breakthrough cases is 42.

Cases of COVID-19 are far more common in unvaccinated people than in vaccinated people. The report shows that the rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is more than 4 times as high as fully vaccinated people, and nearly 9 times as high as in fully vaccinated and boosted people.

OHA said to date, 2.9 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 0.7 percent have died. The average age of vaccinated people who have died is 81.

The latest breakthrough report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/Breakthrough-Report-01-27-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery