Minnesota actually has some of the best breakthrough data in the country, which is sad. Since publishing that data I have gotten a number of requests, including from some politicians about data from other places. If any of you are aware of states or other jurisdictions publishing breakthrough data, would you please let me know through the comments section or by email on the web site. We will see if we can cumulate more. I don’t believe Minnesota’s experience is unique.
A Little Crowdsourcing Help on Breakthroughs
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IL has pretty limited data. Weekly breakthrough deaths and hospitalizations. Data sources and some comments on IL data in this post: https://inumero.substack.com/p/incentives-for-testing-the-vaccinated
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I had briefly seen some data out of MD which showed about 30-40%, for one or two time frame. Unfortunately, I cant find the source to provide any link
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I immensely enjoy your content Mr. Roche and sincerely appreciate all of the time that you put into the content and website.
https://mustreadalaska.com/vaccine-breakthrough-cases-continue-to-climb-over-13000-since-january/
thank you for the data
Can’t help with this request, but I’ve been meaning to comment to Thank You for this blog and your commentary’s in the Strib. Clarity is what I most desire and you’re doing more than your fair share to help. Appreciate the effort!
thank you for reading
https://dph.georgia.gov/document/document/covid-19-breakthrough-report-1192021/download
thank you very much. Getting so many good links, may have to see if we can cumulate it somehow
FWIW, here is a random collection of links to a handful (not an exclusive list) of other state public health agencies that share a tidbit of breakthrough data. I could have missed places where info was shared in greater detail. On the whole, not impressed. If you were running a business and were relying on these agencies to make it clear at summary and detail perspectives as to you what is going on with “breakthrough” cases, the lack of visibility would be unacceptable – period. And that’s not even getting into the convoluted definitions around “partially” and “fully” vaxed and what may be going on in those time periods, or other factors that may be skewing data.
North Dakota
https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases
– Click on the “Breakthrough” tab inside their chart module.
– Within that tab, click on the tabs for “Active Hospitalizations”, “New Cases”, and “Cases per 100,000 Individuals”
– Looks like a better effort than the other states I looked at
Washington
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/DataDashboard
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/data-tables/420-339-VaccineBreakthroughReport.pdf
– NOT impressed. Not sure where source data is.
Pg 6 of the PDF does have a more meaningful chart that gives a daily view
and shows an increasing percentage of breakthroughs that their other data tables obscure by using large time windows.
Tennessee
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/novel-coronavirus/CriticalIndicatorReport.pdf
– Opaque. Not impressed.
Hawaiii
https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/files/2021/11/Hawaii-Breakthrough-Report-21.11.12.pdf
– Opaque. Not impressed.
South Carolina
https://scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-data
https://scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-data/breakthrough-cases-tracking-disease-infection-after-vaccination
– Opaque. Not impressed.
Montana
https://dphhs.mt.gov/publichealth/cdepi/diseases/CoronavirusMT/demographics
Weekly COVID-19 Update in Montana (as of 11/5/2021)
https://dphhs.mt.gov/assets/publichealth/CDEpi/DiseasesAtoZ/2019-nCoV/EpiProfile/EpiUpdate_Weekly110520214.pdf
– Meh. Better than nothing.
Iowa
https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/
– Under the “summary” section. Opaque.
Oklahoma
https://oklahoma.gov/covid19/newsroom/weekly-epidemiology-and-surveillance-report.html
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/covid19/documents/weekly-epi-report/2021.11.10%20Weekly%20Epi%20Reportv1.pdf
– Some detail (see pg 9 of 20 in pdf), yet also opaque.
Indiana
https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/vaccine/2680.htm
– Click on the “Breakthrough” tab in top right corner of dashboard section.
– It’s something. But it’s also somewhat misleading.
New York
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-breakthrough-data
Thank you for the links, you readers are all great.
Pennsylvania has some information on it’s DOH website. The only breakthrough information I could find was this narrative explanation.
https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Post-Vaccination-Data.aspx
I thought this was interesting: “In the 30 days ending October 4, 2021, among a total of 135,098 positive cases, there were 34,609 identified post-vaccination cases (26%).” Maybe doesn’t mean much if you don’t know how long ago the positive person finished vaccination.
There is data on children in a pfd chart: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/Documents/Diseases%20and%20Conditions/ChildCasesByCounty-CommsWk11.pdf
No information about anything beyond whether the child tested positive. And it’s only for the school year beginning in August.
There’s more at the website https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Cases.aspx
And the PA_DOH warns that its website doesn’t work with Explorer. Gotta use chrome or firefox.
thank you so much
Another example of how independent researchers digging deeper into the data state health departments hoard can yield a story that is not in full agreement with the narratives state health departments want to propogate…
Vermont has a Data Summary they publish weekly on their site.
https://www.healthvermont.gov/covid-19/current-activity/data-summary
Example report (see pg. 31):
https://www.healthvermont.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/COVID19-Weekly-Data-Summary-11-5-2021.pdf
While the report includes some data regarding breakthroughs, it is opaque and lacking detail.
A Sept. 30th article in the Vermont Daily Chronicle (seems to be an independent journalist type, not traditional media), however, claims that “76% of September Covid-19 deaths are vax breakthroughs”.
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/2021/09/30/76-of-september-covid-19-deaths-are-vaxxed-breakthroughs/
“At Tuesday’s press conference, the Department of Health September mortality statistics did not show a vaccinated/unvaccinated breakdown. Despite recent emphatic references by Gov. Phil Scott and Health Department Commissioner Mark Levine to a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” the per capita rate of vaccinated breakthrough deaths has risen in recent weeks.
Vermont Daily Chronicle asked Health Department spokesman Ben Truman Tuesday for a vaxxed/unvaxxed breakdown of the 33 September deaths…
‘Eight of the 33 deaths in September were not vaccinated…”
thank you, if I ever get the time, I can going to cumulate as much of the breakthrough data as people have sent me and share the results. Thanks.