May 6, 2022 3:00 a.m.

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released on Thursday, reported 18,608 cases of infection during the month of April.

OHA said of those cases, 8,815 or 47.4 percent, were unvaccinated people, and 9,769 or 52.5 percent, were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 6,142, or 52.2 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted.

OHA said to date, there have been 207,952 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. Of those cases, 52,998, or 25.5 percent, were fully vaccinated.

To date, 2.6 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 0.6 percent have died. The median age of vaccinated people who died is 80.

The latest breakthrough report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/Breakthrough-Report-05-05-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery