The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines is borne out in new government data showing that more than 99.99% of fully vaccinated Americans have not had a breakthrough infection resulting in hospitalization or death.
There were 6,587 COVID-19 breakthrough cases as of July 26 — including 6,239 hospitalizations and 1,263 deaths — among more than 163 million fully vaccinated people, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, CNN reported.
That means that fewer than 0.004% of fully vaccinated people had a breakthrough infection that required hospitalization and less than 0.001% died from a breakthrough infection, CNN reported.
