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Mass. reports 3,098 new breakthrough cases for the last week
There have been another seven deaths among vaccinated individuals.
As it has been doing weekly, the state released updated data Tuesday on the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among vaccinated individuals across Massachusetts.
There have been a total of 15,739 breakthrough cases of COVID-19 as of Aug. 21, an increase of 3,098 from Aug. 14. There were 4,449,267 people vaccinated as of Aug. 21, meaning 0.35% reported a breakthrough case of COVID-19. The rate has been increasing: On Aug. 7, the breakthrough rate was 0.23% and on Aug. 14 it was 0.29%.
Though hospitalizations and deaths have also increased, they remain proportionally low. Tuesday’s data showed a total of 571 hospitalizations and 131 deaths, an increase of 75 and 7 respectively since last week. These rates remain low and haven’t increased: out of vaccinated individuals, 0.01% were hospitalized for COVID-19 and 0.001% died.
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According to the data, 3.63% of breakthrough cases resulted in hospitalization and 0.83% resulted in death, a decrease from last week.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health continues to encourage eligible residents to get the vaccine. On Aug. 19, Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration mandated that all state executive department employees get vaccinated.
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