Breakthrough infection reporting sucks!

Breakthrough infections appear to be rare but the reporting by states isn't very good. Half the states don't seem to keep stats. Others don't report very often. The CDC stopped keeping track of asymptomatic breakthroughs in May. You would think they would want that info in light of the recent evidence of transmissibility. There is some information but we could use a lot more.

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/

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Breakthrough infection reporting sucks! (Original post)	Tomconroy	Aug 2021	OP
Yep. Blind spots in the data. I hate blind spots in the data.	paleotn	Aug 2021	#1
It bothers me a lot that I keep on seeing reports of breakthrough cases	PoindexterOglethorpe	Aug 2021	#2
I was looking for info on asymptomatic breakthroughs,	Tomconroy	Aug 2021	#3
Reporting raw stats without context is unethical journalism that is potentially lethal	Fiendish Thingy	Aug 2021	#4

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Sun Aug 1, 2021, 03:02 PM

paleotn (13,195 posts)

1. Yep. Blind spots in the data. I hate blind spots in the data.

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Sun Aug 1, 2021, 03:05 PM

PoindexterOglethorpe (22,431 posts)

2. It bothers me a lot that I keep on seeing reports of breakthrough cases

with no corresponding report of unvaccinated people getting sick. It's as if everyone really is vaccinated, and the only cases are the breakthrough ones.

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Sun Aug 1, 2021, 03:15 PM

Tomconroy (5,097 posts)

3. I was looking for info on asymptomatic breakthroughs,

But it doesn't seem to be out there. If you can transmit while being asymptomatic, you would think they would want to know how many there are. The CDC does surveys.

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Sun Aug 1, 2021, 03:54 PM

Fiendish Thingy (9,486 posts)

4. Reporting raw stats without context is unethical journalism that is potentially lethal

Despite all the hysterical click bait headlines, the big picture reality is that the large majority of vaccinated people are protected from severe illness and death should they become infected with the delta variant.

The poor reporting by the MSM is getting translated via social media to “they lied to us, vaccines don’t work, and now they want us to wear masks again and get booster shots”. This is coming from average people, not Anti vax RWNJs.

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