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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's birthday party was a bad idea [View all]maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)I made 2 assertions:
1. Still a very small portion of vaccinated people having breakthrough cases.
2. this new surge in cases is not being driven by breakthroughs - it's the unvaxxed.
Are either of those untrue? you say the breakthroughs are "not small numbers". that sounds pretty subjective to me, at least as subjective as my "very small".
there are 167 million fully vaccinated people in the US. using this randomly-selected article's numbers ( https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/breakthrough-covid-cases-least-125-000-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-n1275500 ). 125,000 have tested positive, 1,400 have died in this surge.
125,000/167,000,000 = 0.00075%.
1400/167,000,000 = 0.000008%.
I say those numbers are "very small"; you say they are "not small". we're going to have to disagree.
meanwhile, the average cases/day is >100,000. i would agree that that number is "not small".