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Parsing the numbers: Why vaccinated residents made up 40% of Erie County's positive Covid-19 tests

Possible answer: New subvariants are making it worse

@WarrenEducators @LauraMiers
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buffalonews.com/news/local/par… via @TheBuffaloNews

Breakthrough cases:

"Erie County Health Dept investigation..over past three weeks indicates 4 of 10 cases were fully vaccinated.

"Local hospital systems report between 20% and 40% of patients recently hospitalized with Covid-19 also were fully vaccinated.

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"The breakdown is similar for Covid-19 related deaths, with 70% of county Covid-19 deaths since early July involving residents who were not fully vaccinated and 30% involving residents who were.

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Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein. "Even fully vaccinated people have to be cautious about infection. So we have to, again, go back to our strong and effective non-pharmaceutical interventions to protect ourselves against infection. So masks."

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"What we do today is going to have an enormous impact on number of people likely to be in the hospital down the road, I'm not suggesting we have to close all the restaurants [A meal to die for?] and the bars and everything else, but people have to start being really careful."

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