BY KEVIN DUGGAN
An infi nitesimal number
of New Yorkers who received
the COVID-19 vaccine have
tested positive for the virus,
while almost all people hospitalized
with the illness had
not received their shots, according
to new city Health
Department data announced
Wednesday morning.
“Here’s the common sense
bottom line: vaccines keep
you alive and out of the hospital,”
said City Health Commissioner
Dr. Dave Chokshi
at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daily
press briefi ng on Aug. 25.
Of fully-vaccinated New
Yorkers, 0.33 percent were
diagnosed with the coronavirus,
0.02 percent were hospitalized,
and 0.003 percent
died of the illness.
Meanwhile, 97 percent
of people hospitalized with
COVID are unvaccinated, according
to the Health Department
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analysis.
“It makes clear that vaccines
continue to be extremely
effective,” said de
Blasio on Aug. 25. “Yes, there
are some breakthrough cases,
that’s true, but the bottom
line is vaccine overwhelmingly
works on things we care
about the most, which is stopping
people from being hospitalized,
stopping people from
coming up with the most severe
illnesses, and certainly,
most importantly, protecting
lives, stopping people from
losing lives to COVID.”
The Health Department
collected the data from January
August, including several
months before the more
contagious Delta variant
started to drive a resurgence
of cases in June.
Data from more recent
weeks show that unvaccinated
people are 13 times
more likely to end up in the
hospital with COVID compared
to inoculated people.
Those without the shot are
also three times more likely
to be infected in the fi rst
place, according to Chokshi.
“Although you might
have anecdotes about breakthrough
cases, let’s keep in
mind that the plural of anecdote
is not data,” the city’s
doctor said.
COVID-19 vaccines continue to be effective against the coronavirus, city
health offi cials said Aug. 25. File photo by Erica Price
‘COMMON SENSE’
Only 0.33 percent of vaxxed New Yorkers
infected with COVID since January: Report
“Here’s the common sense bottom line:
vaccines keep you alive and out of the
hospital.
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