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Fully vaccinated Minnesotaers experience advanced COVID-19 infections at a higher rate in recent weeks, but the hospitalization rate has only increased slightly and the mortality rate has remained unchanged.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said Monday it has recorded 12,559 advanced infections among the 3,028,670 in the state that had been fully vaccinated as of Aug. 1.
This places the infection rate of this group at 0.415%, approximately one in 241 people.
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This represents a jump from data from the state health department on July 11, when there were 5,599 advanced infections among 2,948,744 people completely vaccinated, a rate of 0.19%
This increase in advanced cases is a trend seen by health officials nationwide. And it’s not unexpected.
In early August. MIT Medical said that the greater the number of people vaccinated, the greater the number of advanced infections.
“When a high percentage of people start wearing seat belts, a higher percentage of deaths in motor vehicles will affect people wearing seat belts,” Shawn Ferullo, associate medical director, said in the update. “But the overall mortality rate is falling sharply. Vaccination against COVID works the same way. “
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In fact, this is what the Minnesota numbers also show.
MDH, in its update on Monday, said there were 810 hospitalizations among fully vaccinated people, a rate of 0.027%. As of July 11, there had been 514 hospitalizations at a rate of 0.017%, so there has been a slight increase.
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MDH also notes that hospitalization figures include all patients admitted for any reason within 14 days of the positive COVID test, even if the COVID is not what caused the hospital stay.
The mortality rate of fully vaccinated individuals has not changed, remaining at 0.002% from July 11 (57 deaths) to August 30 (80 deaths). During the period from July 11 to August. 30, there were 184 deaths from COVID-19 in Minnesota, so vaccinated people accounted for 12.5% of that number.
A recent study found that an unvaccinated person is about 29 times more likely to be hospitalized because of COVID-19 than a fully vaccinated person. Unvaccinated people are also about five times more likely to become infected.