by Zachary Stieber
The number of recorded COVID-19 cases among Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus is now over 7,100, according to health officials. The so-called breakthrough cases are reported by states to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which then releases the figures.
In its new update, the CDC reported that 7,157 people who were fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, still got the virus. Most of the breakthrough cases, 64 percent, took place among women, while 46 percent were among people 60 years old or above. Nearly 500 people who contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated required hospital care, though about a third of them were hospitalized for illnesses deemed unrelated to COVID-19. Eighty-eight of the breakthrough patients, or 1 percent, died. Eleven of the deaths were reported as not showing symptoms or being unrelated to the disease.
The state-by-state breakdown of the cases was not made public. The CDC first reported the breakthrough case numbers on April 15. The new update shows 7,157 such cases. The new figures are through April 20. The CDC expects to update the numbers every Friday, a spokeswoman told The Epoch Times via email. Because the current system relies on voluntary reporting from state health departments, there may be more breakthrough cases than the number the CDC publishes.
As of April 23, more than 91 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus. Fully vaccinated refers to people who received their second Moderna or Pfizer dose, or their single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, two or more weeks prior.
None of the vaccines were expected to provide full protection, so health officials and experts say the breakthrough cases are not a cause for concern. “While there are break popularly cited reason among eight provided by Mitofsky was that they want to wait and see what effect vaccination has on the first groups of inoculated people. Almost one in five respondents, or 19.7 percent, cited that reason.
Fear of vaccines or injections was cited by 13.4 percent while 12.4 percent mentioned the risk of adverse reactions such as blood clots. About one in 13 of those who don’t want to get vaccinated, or 7.5 percent, said that Covid-19 doesn’t exist or isn’t a serious disease.
Another 3.9 percent said that vaccines are ineffective against the virus. A response option provided by the survey — “the disease and the vaccine are part of a conspiracy to reduce the population” — was chosen by 10.2 percent. Another 4.4 percent said the objective of vaccination is to control people. Religious reasons were cited by 3.3 percent. In response to questions about the vaccination distribution process, the majority had positive feelings about it.
The survey found that 71.9 percent of respondents believe that the organization of the process has been very good or good in the state where they live. However, 19.4 percent said that it has been very bad or bad.
