The CDC said in May it would stop monitoring the number of infections in vaccinated people aside from cases where a fully vaccinated person was hospitalized or died.
In one cluster of more than 200 cases in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 70 percent of the Covid positive cases since July 1 have been among vaccinated individuals, Town Manager Alex Morse said in an MSNBC interview.At the Texas Medical Center in Houston, 10 percent of more than 250 hospitalized Covid patients were vaccinated, a hospital spokesperson said.In Las Vegas, 11 percent of Covid hospitalizations in July had been fully vaccinated people, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A spokesperson for University of Kansas Health System said July 15 that 16 percent of inpatients were fully vaccinated people.
Nationwide, the CDC has tracked more than 4,000 cases of fully vaccinated people being hospitalized with symptoms of Covid as of July 19, up 9 percent from the week earlierThe agency said a total of 849 vaccinated people have died, including 58 the week of July 12, according to data reported to the CDC by local health departments
But administration officials, Psaki and White House Covid coordinator Jeffrey Zients, have repeatedly said 97 percent of people who are hospitalized with Covid are unvaccinated, citing a figure based on data from January to April when the U.SFor May, the CDC said the percentage of hospitalized patients who are vaccinated was less than 10 percent, but didn’t have a more specific figure