Virginia COVID Dashboard Breaks Down Cases By Vaccination Status

VIRGINIA — The Virginia Department of Health updated its COVID-19 dashboard Monday to allow the public to compare the rate of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among people who are fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated going back to January.

Health officials said they updated the dashboard “to more accurately represent the impact of vaccinations on infection rates in the Commonwealth.”

Between Jan. 17 and Aug. 14, 2021, 252,938 people developed COVID-19 symptoms or tested positive for the disease. The vast majority of these cases were among unvaccinated people, according to the VDH.

Only 10,712 infections have been reported during the period among the 4.7 million Virginians who have been fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated people developed COVID-19 at a rate 12.5 times higher than fully vaccinated people during the period, the health department said.

Health officials also are seeing a shift in health outcomes by age group. High rates of vaccination among Virginians who are 65 and older means this age group now has a reduced risk of severe COVID-19 disease. However, hospitalization rates are now increasing in younger age groups that have lower vaccination rates.

Eighty-three percent of Virginians who are 65 and older have been fully vaccinated, while 18 percent of the population under the age of 18 have been vaccinated. Children between the age of 12 and 17 are able to get the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. The FDA has not approved any other vaccines for this age group, and no vaccine has been approved for the age group under 12.

As of Tuesday, 55.9 percent of Virginians are fully vaccinated. Sixty-seven percent of adults are fully vaccinated, while 75.2 percent of adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the VDH.

For the week ending Aug. 14, the VDH reported a rate of infection of 297.88 per 100,000 people among unvaccinated people. Among partially vaccinated people, the infection rate was 127.74 per 100,000. And among fully vaccinated people, the infection rate 34.90 per 100,000.

Unvaccinated people developed COVID-19 at a rate of 8.5 times higher than fully vaccinated people for the week ending Aug. 14 and at a rate of 2.3 times higher than partially vaccinated people, according to the VDH.

As of Tuesday, 1,343 people confirmed with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Virginia, the highest hospitalization count since Feb. 20, according to the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association.

Virginia's seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate stood at 9.7 percent on Tuesday, the highest positivity rate since Feb. 10.