COVID IN MASS.: Health officials' breakthrough COVID case report noted 82,466 new cases over the past week, nearly doubling last week's total, and 112 more deaths.
The equivalent of just 0.09% of vaccinated people have been hospitalized with COVID and 5.1% have had confirmed infections. An even smaller percentage has died: 0.02%. The report also doesn't indicate how many of the breakthrough cases are in people with underlying conditions, though it also notes that"may be undercounted due to discrepancies" in records.
While vaccinated people are getting COVID-19, the virus' effects are severely blunted in them, and breakthrough cases rarely lead to hospitalizations or deaths. Last month,that found that 97% of breakthrough cases in the state did not become severely ill and rarely led to deaths, especially among young people.
Also Tuesday, another 17,802 confirmed coronavirus cases and 116 new deaths were reported, pushing the state's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 1,264,925 since the start of the pandemic and its death toll to 20,275.interactive coronavirus dashboard Massachusetts' seven-day average of positive tests ticked up from 22.39% Monday to 22.78% Tuesday. The metric was once above 30%, but had dropped under 0.5% until the delta variant began surging in the state.
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