Oregon's COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough report of March 17, 2022

Oregon Health Authority (OHA)’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, March 17th 2022, reported 2,532 cases of COVID-19 during the week of March 6 to March 12.


Of those cases, 2,370, or 93.6%, were unvaccinated people and 945, or 37.3%, were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 468, or 49.5%, were fully vaccinated and boosted.

The median age of the breakthrough cases during that period was 51. Seven breakthrough cases involved residents of care facilities, senior living communities or other congregate care settings. There were 43 cases in people ages 12 to 17.

To date, there have been 195,600 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. Of those cases, 45,386, or 23.2%, were fully vaccinated. The median age of all cases is 41. (it changed to 46 in April)

To date, 2.5% of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 0.6% have died. The median age of vaccinated people who died is 80.

578 breakthrough fatalities were among those whose with primary COVID-19 immunization series done with Pfizer vaccine (6,973.3 cases per every 100,000 vaccinated), 351 with Moderna (6,245.9 cases per every 100,000 vaccinated) and 157 with Johnson and Johnson (7,811.9 cases per every 100,000 vaccinated). 


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REFERENCE

COVID-19 Breakthrough Report. Oregon’s Weekly Surveillance Summary by Oregon Health Authority. March 17, 2022

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