February 3, 2022 5:50 p.m.

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on breakthrough cases, released on Thursday, reported 44,421 cases of COVID-19 during the week of January 23rd to January 29th.

OHA said of those cases, 28,990, or 65.3 percent, were unvaccinated people while 15,431 or 34.1 percent were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the vaccine breakthrough cases, 4,852, or 31.4 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted.

The average age of the breakthrough cases during that period was 48. 128 breakthrough cases involved residents of care facilities, senior living communities, or other congregate care settings. There were 1,223 cases in people aged 12 to 17.

OHA said to date, there have been 123,740 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. The average age of all breakthrough cases is 41. Breakthrough cases have been reported in all 36 counties.

The report shows that rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is more than 3.1 times higher than in vaccinated people and 6.4 times higher than in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.

OHA said to date, 2.7 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 0.6 percent have died. The average age of vaccinated people who died is 81.

The latest breakthrough report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/Breakthrough-Report-02-03-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery