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Originally Posted by posted by "Skybird
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Among the corona intensive care patients are by no means only unvaccinated. Instead, the number of vaccinated Covid patients with severe courses continues to increase. They are what are known as “vaccination breakthroughs”.
The RKI records a corona case as a "probable vaccination breakthrough" if a Sars-CoV-2 infection with clinical symptoms was diagnosed in a fully vaccinated person using a PCR test or pathogen isolation.
According to the RKI report on Thursday, there have been a total of 362,130 vaccination breakthroughs in 57.7 million people since the beginning of the year. This corresponds to 0.6 percent of the total of those vaccinated.
They had a completed series of vaccinations
246.735 with Comirnaty (Biontech / Pfizer)
37,616 with Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)
28,933 with Vaxzevria (Astrazeneca)
19.160 with Spikevax (Moderna)
18.147 with a combination Vaxzevria / Comirnaty and
3318 with a combination Vaxzevria / Spikevax.
According to the RKI, in the case of a further 8821 vaccination breakthroughs, no assignment to the above-mentioned vaccines was made on the basis of the information available. Important: These numbers do not mean that the risk of a breakthrough is highest with a Biontech vaccination - only most people in Germany are vaccinated with Biontech.
According to the RKI, however, it is “to be expected” that the number of vaccination breakthroughs will increase over time. Because: “Since more and more people are generally vaccinated and Sars-CoV-2 is currently spreading again more and more. This increases the likelihood of coming into contact with the virus as a fully vaccinated person. "
However, by no means all of these breakthrough vaccinations need to be treated in intensive care units. According to the report, the breakthroughs are distributed very differently depending on the age group in the last documented calendar weeks 44 to 48.
Fully vaccinated among the symptomatic Covid sufferers were during this period
8.3 percent of 12 to 17 year olds (3,078 of 37,193 cases)
50.6 percent of 18 to 59 year olds (123,240 of 243,648 cases) and
70.6 percent of people over 60 (42,085 of 59,956 cases).
The proportion of fully vaccinated patients in hospitalized symptomatic Covid cases looks like this:
12 percent of 12 to 17 year olds (23 out of 191 cases)
30.2 percent of 18 to 59 year olds (1332 of 4414 cases) and
52.3 percent of people over the age of 60 (3557 of 6805 cases)
Completely vaccinated were among those Covid sufferers treated in intensive care during this period, however
0 percent of 12 to 17 year olds (0 out of 6 cases)
16.8 percent of 18 to 59 year olds (105 of 626 cases) and
41.1 percent of those over 60 (480 of 1168 cases).
The numbers show two things. On the one hand, the unvaccinated, although they make up “only” 30.6 percent of the total population (and that includes small children), are disproportionately represented in hospitalization and, above all, in intensive care units. On the other hand, the elderly, who were often vaccinated at the beginning of the year, are slowly showing the consequences of declining vaccination protection.
According to the current RKI data, 11,410 corona patients were treated in the hospital in these five weeks, 1,800 of them in the intensive care units. On the other hand, 6498 patients were unvaccinated among the hospitalized corona cases, 1215 of them were treated in intensive care.
The number of vaccination breakthroughs does not in any way deny the vaccinations their usefulness. Rather, it illustrates how strongly the virus can spread in a society in which around 25 million are still unvaccinated.
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