| With the spread of the more transmissible delta variant continuing nationwide, the recent surge in COVID-19 cases is being largely driven by swaths of people who remain unvaccinated, according to one expert.
“We know that the vast majority of the spread is still by unvaccinated people. And I think that that is the part that’s been lost in the messaging from the CDC … which is that the problem is not with the vaccinated. The problem remains with the unvaccinated. And the way that we can get out of this pandemic is to increase vaccination rates,” CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen said Saturday.
Wen’s remarks come as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data indicating that a small percentage of the fully vaccinated population can still be infected with COVID-19, be hospitalized or die from the disease.
Less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization, according to CDC’s latest data, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease.
Breakthrough cases occur when the virus infects fully vaccinated people.
The CDC reported a total of 6,587 breakthrough cases, including 6,239 hospitalizations and 1,263 deaths as of July 26. At that time, more than 163 million people in the U.S. were fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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