Recently released California data shows people vaccinated against COVID-19 have a very low risk of infection.
Between Jan. 1 and June 23, only 7,553 of the over 19.5 million people vaccinated had a post-vaccination infection, according to the California Department of Public Health. That represented fewer than 0.04% of vaccinated cases.
Of the 7,553 Californians who were infected, the state said 62 died.
"However, it is unknown if the primary cause of death in these cases was COVID-19 or if there were other contributory or alternate causes," officials wrote last week.
At least 584 of those people were hospitalized, but the state said it was unclear how many hospitalizations were due to COVID-19. Hospitalization data was missing from 46% of cases.
Nationally, just 4,686 post-vaccine infections resulted in hospitalization or death, according to June 28 data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A quarter of the 879 deaths were asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19, as were 28% of the 4,479 hospitalizations.
Of over 154 million people vaccinated across the country as of June 28, 0.003% of people were hospitalized with, or died of a post-vaccine infection.
With the highly transmissible Delta variant now the dominant COVID-19 strain in California, state officials and public health experts continue to stress the variant poses a higher risk to people who aren’t vaccinated than those who are.
Over 69% of eligible Californians have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to state data. Of those residents who are at least 12 years old, 59.6% are fully vaccinated.
