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Vaccine data
Onondaga County has had 317,906 residents receive the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine and 293,452 residents complete the vaccination series of shots.
The county has also reported 3,223 breakthrough cases.
“So, the data says 1.09 percent of those who have been vaccinated with a completed series have turned into a breakthrough case,” McMahon said.
The Pfizer vaccine has been the choice of 65.8 percent of county residents; another 26 percent chose the Moderna vaccine; 8.2 percent opted for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The data indicates that among the local breakthrough cases, the numbers mirror the national averages. The county said 66.7 percent of the local breakthrough cases involve people who received the Pfizer vaccine; 21.1 percent of the cases involve people who got the Moderna vaccine; and 12.2 percent of the breakthrough cases are people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“The question we have gotten is how many vaccinated individuals have we lost? The answer is we’ve lost 14 individuals who’ve been fully vaccinated,” McMahon said.
McMahon’s office also tells CNYBJ that those 14 fully vaccinated deceased were among 42 total people who have died from COVID-19 since Aug. 1. So, the other 28 were unvaccinated.
Doing the math, 14 deaths out of 293,452 fully vaccinated people yields a .0047 percent death rate, he said.
The average age of an unvaccinated person in Onondaga County is 68. The average age of a vaccinated person who dies from COVID is 78.
“The data tells the story that the vaccine is our best tool with this virus to stay out of the hospital, to stay out of the ICU, and the vaccines have still been an incredibly effective tool to prevent COVID overall,” McMahon said.
Not that it matters, but McMahon is a Republican.