In Washington state, the sickest patients were 62 times as likely to die if they were unvaccinated. A COVID-19 case in a fully vaccinated person occurred when SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen was detected in a respiratory specimen collected 14 days after completing the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine with FDA approval or emergency use authorization. High Intent mothers had younger children overall than Already Vaccinated mothers (41.9% of High Intent vs. 18.2% of Already Vaccinated had an 11-year-old child, p<0.001). A COVID-19 case in an unvaccinated person occurred when the person did not receive any FDAauthorized COVID-19 vaccine doses before the specimen collection date. Sect.241(d); 5 U.S.C.0 Sect.552a; 44 U.S.C. ; Surveillance Platform for Enteric and Respiratory Infectious Organisms at the VA COVID-19 Surveillance Group . To interpret IRR changes, age-standardized crude vaccine effectiveness (VE) was estimated as (1 [incidence in vaccinated / incidence in unvaccinated]). Because of reporting lags, the influence of the Omicron variant on COVID-19associated deaths by vaccination status in December could not be evaluated. Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations cost billions of dollars But by January 2022, as we showed in an . Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. A COVID-19 case in a fully vaccinated person occurred when SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen was detected in a respiratory specimen collected 14 days after completing the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval or emergency use authorization. By this far into the pandemic, it is estimated that many unvaccinated people have had COVID-19 at least once and while hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated people have needlessly died from COVID, those who survived may have gained some immune protection against the virus that can help protect them against severe outcomes when they have subsequent infections. Similarly, to be counted as having a booster, a person must be at least two weeks out from their booster or additional dose before testing positive. *** https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/statnt/statnt24.pdf. The data also shows during that same week, 945 people were hospitalized. 33.6% were "under-vaccinated," meaning they either received only one shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or have not received a booster shot. Balian S, Bailey B, Abboud S, Kim Y, Humphries D, Kambali S, Kalangi ST, Jarvis J, Dayal L, Beiz H, Battisti R, Haddad N. J Investig Med. Vaccine Breakthrough Unit, Surveillance and Analytics Team. Views equals page views plus PDF downloads. This change requires a reload. Johnson & Johnson, which partly tested its vaccine in South Africa when the beta variant emerged, reported an efficacy of 66% in preventing moderate to severe COVID-19 and an efficacy of 85% in preventing severe or critical COVID-19in its clinical trial.