Washington governor orders state employees, health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccine

Lessons from Oregon’s July COVID-19 breakthrough report

August 7, 2021 | One out of every five COVID-19 infections reported in Oregon in July were breakthrough cases; those which were were diagnosed in people who are fully vaccinated, according to the Oregon Health Authority. It’s a discouraging number, but there’s a silver lining: vaccinated people made up just one out of ten COVID-19 deaths. The breakthrough cases that ended in death were almost exclusively in the elderly.