Are there deaths from COVID among those vaccinated? Not a lot.

The coronavirus vaccine appears to be working to keep people out of the hospital and morgue.

Are people dying from COVID after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine?

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that 99.999% of people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have not had a severe breakthrough case that resulted in hospitalization or death, CNN reports.

• According to the CDC, more than 166 million people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
• The new data suggests that 1,507 people (about 0.001%) of those fully vaccinated people have died from COVID-19.
• Meanwhile, 7,101 of those fully vaccinated people (about 0.005%) have been hospitalized with COVID-19.

Who receives groundbreaking COVID cases?

According to the CDC, most severe cases of breakthrough – about 74% – have been in people aged 65 or older, CNN reports.

• About 20% of people who died from COVID-19 after a breakthrough case died of something other than COVID-19, although they had a breakthrough case when they died, according to CNN.

How recent are the CDC’s COVID death figures?

The most recent figures are correct as of August 2, just as the delta variant of the new coronavirus began to spread in the United States, according to CNN.