June 10, 2022 4:00 a.m. 

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released on Thursday, reported 44,363 cases of infection during the month of May.

Of those cases, 21,100, or 47.6 percent, were unvaccinated people, while 23,246, or 52.4 percent were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 14,506, or 62.4 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted.

OHA said to date, there have been 233,873 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. Of those cases, 69,105 or 29.5 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted at the time of infection.

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-06-09-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery