March 10, 2022 3:20 p.m.  

On Thursday, the Oregon Health Authority released its most recent update on COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases, reporting 4,104 cases of COVID-19 during the week of February 27th to March 5th.

OHA said of those cases, 2,436 or 59.4 percent were unvaccinated people. 1,667 or 40.6 percent were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 776, or 46.6 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted.

The median age of the breakthrough cases during that period was 55. 24 breakthrough cases involved residents of care facilities, senior living communities and other congregate care settings. There were 61 cases in people ages 12 to 17.

OHA said to date there have been 194,613 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. Of those cases, 44,883 or 23.1 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted at the time of infection. The median age of all cases is 41.

The report shows that the rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is approximately 2.8 times the rate as in vaccinated people and 4 times higher than in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.

OHA said to date, 2.5 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 0.5 percent have died. The median age of vaccinated people who died is 80.

The breakthrough report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/Breakthrough-Report-03-10-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdeliveryOH