UK: PHE on Delta Variant - 6.2% vaccine breakthrough with both doses

I see people stressing about vaccination death data due to some unclear #scicomms on here…

So here it is: we know of 33,206 cases of Delta variant (28,917 with vax info)

1,785 were fully vaccinated and *still* got infected (6.2% of cases)

Of these 1,785, 12 died (0.7%)

— Meaghan Kall (@kallmemeg) June 11, 2021

Will leave the brilliant @JamesWard73 to estimate VE against those numbers

Of note is the high % of severe outcomes among people breakthrough infections.

Who are they & why is that happening?

Work ongoing to understand the profile of fully vaxxed people with severe outcomes.

— Meaghan Kall (@kallmemeg) June 11, 2021