Minnesota:
The
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said Monday it has recorded
12,559 breakthrough infections among the state's 3,028,670 who had been fully vaccinated as of Aug. 1.
That puts the
infection rate among that group at 0.415%, about one in every 241 people.
That's a jump from
state health department figures as of July 11, when there were 5,599 breakthrough infections among 2,948,744 fully vaccinated people — a rate of 0.19%
This
increase in breakthrough cases is a trend health officials are seeing nationally.
Of course there is this problem, which is true all over the country: MDH also notes the hospitalization figures
include all patients admitted for any reason within 14 days of a positive COVID test, even if COVID isn't what caused the hospital stay.
So, the numbers of hospitalization and death are low and always have been low, relative to the population. Only a fraction of those who got Covid at all are likely to be hospitalized from Covid; lots of those positive Covid tests are among those who are actually hospitalized for another reason, yet happened to also get exposed to Covid.
Among those, most of those who require invasive treatment and/or die are elderly, or have serious risk factors.
Stop talking as if one seriously risks hospitalization and death just from existing in society without Pfizer, or from already having recovered from Covid. Almost all of the high risk people have been vaccinated already, by their own choice, as it always must be in a free country.
Suggesting mandatory vaccination is like wearing a seatbelt or not driving drunk is disingenuous. Those are mere restrictions on driving - things to do, much unlike demanding one inject something with NEVER BEFORE USED technology into their bodies to engage in society. Maybe you want to live in Minority Report, but most of us do not.
Get out of here with the "They have tested Mrna since 2009". Not in humans, they haven't. That experiment is occurring now and doesn't end until 2023, if I recall correctly in the Pfizer extension of the EUA and simultaneous separate approval of the not yet produced "Conmirnaty".
Here's a little piece for you from Dr. Kamran Abassi, head of the British Medical Journal, where, ironically, free speech from scientists is not shut down as it has been silenced, in the "land of the free". Here, we are only permitted to hear a single official perspective since the autocrats came to power.
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science