Less than 0.001% of fully vaccinated Americans died from COVID-19 infection.

With so much attention on groundbreaking COVID-19 infections lately, the data helps put into perspective how extremely unlikely it is for a fully vaccinated person to end up in hospital or die from the coronavirus. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited by CNN, less than 0.004% of fully vaccinated people in the United States are hospitalized after a breakthrough case and less than 0.001% have died from COVID-19.

As of July 26, the CDC reported that there had been 6,239 hospitalizations related to COVID-19 among those fully vaccinated and 1,263 deaths. Almost three in four cases of breakthrough have occurred in adults 65 years of age or older.

Data on breakthrough infections is a bit tricky because the CDC stopped monitoring it on May 1, and not all states collect and present information in the same way. In an analysis of available state data, the Kaiser Family Foundation pointed out that not all hospitalizations and deaths among fully vaccinated people were in fact due to COVID-19. Still, data from the states that release the information make it clear what experts have long been saying, hospitalizations and deaths are extremely rare among fully vaccinated people. Groundbreaking cases among vaccinees are less than 1% in all states, and hospitalizations range from zero to 0.06%. Death rates for fully immunized people were even lower, effectively reaching zero in all but two reporting states.

Just over 58% of the U.S. population over the age of 12 has been fully vaccinated in the United States, according to CDC data.