Raleigh, North Carolina – About one in five cases of coronavirus reported in North Carolina last week were among people vaccinated, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
But while so-called “advances” accounted for 18% of all infections last week, the 40,000 post-vaccination cases reported between early January and late August accounted for only 6% of all cases of state during this period. point.
The state reported a total of 5,877 new infections on Friday and its daily average of 6,015 new cases over the past week has dropped 12% from a week ago.
However, the state has spent six weeks in which the rate of positive results in virus testing has not dropped below 10 percent. The state’s target rate is 5 percent.
In addition, for the second day in a row, more than 450 people were admitted to North Carolina hospitals with COVID-19. On Friday, the state reported 3,756 COVID-19 patients.
Based on state data from recent weeks, DHHS states that unvaccinated individuals are nearly five times more likely to become infected and more than 13 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who received their shots. .
Similarly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on Friday that said unvaccinated people were ten times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and 11 times more likely to die from the disease than women. vaccinated people.
DHHS reported that 97 percent of North Carolinians who died of COVID-19 since January were not vaccinated.