So, having gone to two different websites for the Indiana Dept of Health, adding up things by hand, and then trying to match to Dept of Health methodology for tracking breakthrough cases, here’s what I’ve found:
Breakthrough data are updated every Thursday and contain data for the previous week. So I pulled positive test data from the covid data site for August 12-August 18 and then matched against today’s data from the vaccination site. All data as of the August 19, 2021 updates.
Total positive tests: 19,156. Breakthrough positive tests for the same time period: 9,922.
Percent positive cases that are breakthrough: 51.8%. Yep, over half.
Total positive test covid hospitalizations (same time period, based on admission data): 1,001.
Breakthrough positive test hospitalizations: 272.
Percent positive test hospitalizations: 27.1%. Over a quarter of the hospitalizations.
They don’t break down ICU beds by breakthrough vs first-time covid that I could find.
We all know that they keep saying that unvaxxed people account for 95%+ of the positive tests and hospitalizations but that they are using total numbers from January 2021 when hardly anyone had been jabbed.
When we look at now data (and believe me, this was a bit of work since they don’t want to make it easy), the picture is a lot different.
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