Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   You are math or language challenged Date:   7/22/2021 8:47:05 AM (updated 7/22/2021 9:32:40 AM)

Goofy, I stated that 40% of are people that have gotten the virus had one shot or are fully vaccinated.  Not 40% of the vaccinated have gotten the virus.  My God, how can you possibly be that dumb????  Wait, don't answer that.

The number I heard came from CDC where they originally had the numbers reversed and said 60% but then clarified it was 40% with 60% being unvaccinated.  Given that it comes from the CDC who knows.  But I suggest you look at the studies done in Israel which has 9 million people and has over 10M shots done already.  Here are some data for you to ponder.

An initial review of the data surprised the analysts. A summary follows a review of some examples. The first one reveals the week of June 27^th to July 3^rd in the age cohort 20-29 years old. According to the data in this cohort, those new COVID-19 cases involving individuals fully vaccinated totaled 79%. How about the percentage of this population that’s fully vaccinated? It turns out to be 78%, indicating that at least for this cohort, the vaccination rate doesn’t seem to impact the infection rate.

In another cohort, aged 30-39 from the week of June 27^th to July 3^rd, the new COVID-19 cases percentage involving people fully vaccinated came out at 80% while the percentage of the population in that age group fully vaccinated came in at 83%. 

In yet another example from the week of July 27^th to July 3^rd in the 40-49 years old age group, new COVID-19 cases involving fully vaccinated people totaled 84%, and the percentage of the population in this age group that were fully vaccinated stood at 86%.

As for your number of breakthrough cases, I suggest you look a little closer.  What you posted were breathrough cases that required hospitalization.  As of April 30, CDC reported almost 11,000 breakthrough cases.  That was two and a half months ago and before the Delta variant started to dominate the new cases.  Here is the information from the CDC website.

A total of 10,262 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections had been reported from 46 U.S. states and territories as of April 30, 2021.

However, please note that the CDC stopped counting mild cases of the ChiCom virus by vaccinated people that have mild symptoms as breakthrough and are only focused on those that require hospitalization, which makes sense to me.  What really matters is not whether people are getting a cold, but whether they require hospitalization.  On that score I think the vaccine has been very effective.  But so is Ivermectin and other treatment alternatives.  Whether it is 40% or some other number is really not the issue.  It's whether people end up in the hospital or die after being vaccinated.  And on that score the vaccine is very helpful.