4,115 Vaccinated People Have Died, Been Hospitalized With COVID-19 ‘Breakthrough' Infections: CDC

More than 4,000 people have been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 "Breakthrough" cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an update late last week, the agency said that 4,115 people have been hospitalized or have died from COVID-19 despite having been fully vaccinated.

"As of June 21, 2021, more than 150 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19," said the agency in its June 25 update.

"During the same time, CDC received reports from 47 U.S. states and territories of 4,115 patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died."

On May 1, the CDC announced that it had stopped counting all breakthrough cases and only reports on those that lead to hospitalization or death.

The CDC update comes as Israeli officials said last week that during a recent outbreak of COVID-19, about half of the adults infected in the recent outbreak were fully vaccinated.

"Breakthroughs are expected, and we need to better understand who's at risk and whether people who have a breakthrough can transmit the virus to others," Hamer said.

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