[The Epoch Times, August 20, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Lin Yijun New York reported) New York Mayor Bai Sihao announced on Thursday (19th) that 75% of adults in New York City have received at least one dose of COVID-19. -19) Vaccines; on the whole, New Yorkers have received more than 10 million doses of vaccines. At the same time, the highly infectious Delta variant virus continues to rise, causing the number of breakthrough infections in New York to increase.
According to data released by the City Department of Health (DOH), among adults who received at least one dose of the vaccine, the two age groups 55 to 64 and 65 to 74 have the highest vaccination rates, 83% and 84% respectively ; Even the two age groups 18 to 24 and 25 to 34, who are constantly calling for increased vaccination rates, have 66% vaccination rates.
At the same time, data from the Municipal Health Bureau pointed out that the Delta variant virus currently accounts for 94% of the city’s variant virus sequencing samples.
With the increase in the number of vaccines, the number of breakthrough infections caused by the Delta variant virus in New York State is also increasing.
According to a report by “Lohud” on the 3rd, the State Department of Health released data stating that as of July 30, the number of breakthrough infections excluding New York City had increased to 11,025, which was nearly 8,700 on July 19. The number of cases has increased.
Although there are very few cases of breakthrough infections in the United States, this phenomenon still makes experts re-examine the protection of the COVID-19 vaccine against variant viruses.
The New York Times reported on the 17th that Dr. Robert Wachter, head of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said, “Remember that when vaccine research came out early, it was like no one would In the hospital, no one will die,” Vocht believes that “this is obviously not true.”
According to the latest epidemic data released by the city government on the 19th, 155 people were suspected of being infected with the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19) and were hospitalized on the same day, of which 36% were diagnosed with the disease; the hospitalization rate per 100,000 people in New York has recently been flat, at 1.43 on that day; 7. The daily average number of new diagnoses is 1,683. ◇
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