Health Officials Track Local COVID Breakthrough Cases

Essex County, NY Public Health officials say they have updated COVID breakthrough data. On July 30, they reported 17 breakthrough cases out of approximately 700 total cases since mid-January. As of August 26, 2021, 66 total breakthrough cases have been reported to the Essex County Health Department out of almost 850 cases since mid-January.
This means that at this time, less than 10% of infections are occurring in fully vaccinated individuals in Essex County.