Hospitalizations after breakthrough COVID-19 cases ‘extremely uncommon’: study – CTV
March 22, 2022
Hospitalizations among adults with breakthrough cases of COVID-19 are ‘extremely uncommon,’ a new study suggests.
According to Mayo Clinic research, published in this month’s Clinical Infectious Diseases, fewer than 1 in 1,000 people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or have been previously infected with COVID-19 were hospitalized after a breakthrough infection.
“In the general primary care patient population, those who have been vaccinated have very low risk of subsequent hospitalization for breakthrough COVID-19,” Dr. Benjamin Pollock, the study’s lead author, said in a news release. “Our study shows that while it can and does happen, that these occurrences are extremely uncommon.”
Researchers studied more than 100,000 people who were 18 years old or older over the course of 21 months. Of those patients, 69 were later hospitalized after a breakthrough infection of COVID-19.
