August 5, 2022 4:00 a.m.

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released on Thursday, reported 40,013 cases of infection during the month of July.

OHA said of those cases, 18,622, or 46.5 percent, were unvaccinated people, and 21,380, or 53.4 percent, were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 14,388, or 67.3 percent, were fully vaccinated and boosted.

To date, there have been 292,802 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. Of those cases, 103,563, or 35.4 percent, were fully vaccinated and boosted at the time of infection.

OHA said to date, 2.6 percent of 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-08-04-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery