With its update Tuesday, DPH cautioned that there are probably more breakthrough infections and hospitalizations among fully vaccinated people than it counts and can report. The 2,232 newly-reported breakthrough cases represent about 40 percent of the state's recent one-week total of new cases, based on the seven-day average of 780 new cases each day that DPH reported Monday. So it is likely we will see more outbreaks in fully vaccinated individuals," he said during a virtual event hosted by the Massachusetts High Technology Council. There has been an 11-fold increase in cases since the start of the summer, but hospitalizations in Massachusetts have increased just three-fold, he said. "So there's been a decoupling of the increase in cases from the increase in hospitalizations, and that I think is all due to vaccination," Slavin said.

Source: MetroXpress August 10, 2021 21:22 UTC