February 11, 2022 4:00 a.m.

The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, reported 29,411 cases of COVID-19 during the week of January 30th through February 5th.

OHA said of those cases, 15,020 or 51.1 percent, were unvaccinated people and 12,778, or 43.41 percent were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the vaccine breakthrough cases, 4,637, or 35.3 percent were fully vaccinated and boosted.

The average age of breakthrough cases during the period was 50. 79 breakthrough cases involved residents of care facilities, senior living communities or other congregate care settings. There were 816 cases in people ages 12 to 17.

OHA said to date, there have been 145,313 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. The average age of all cases is 41. Breakthrough cases have been reported in all 36 counties.

The report shows that the rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is almost twice the rate in vaccinated people and 3.4 times higher than in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.

To date, 2.6 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-02-10-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery