基礎疾患あるとやばい

Overall, breakthrough cases represent 31% of infections – the highest rate in the US, where most states have less than 1%. Breakthrough patients in Guam account for about 40% of hospital admissions.

The Covid surge is perplexing for a territory with a vaccination rate close to 90%, ranking sixth in the US. 

While there has been some vaccine hesitancy, experts caution that the vaccines are working to protect citizens, and estimate that case numbers would be three times higher than they are had the vaccination rate not been so high and that when vaccinated people are hospitalised, their stays are much shorter and illnesses much less severe.

“It is clear that most people who stay longer in the hospital are unvaccinated. The length of stay for people who are vaccinated average around two days.

“Best guess on our higher rate may be related to close family culture and our high co-morbidities, which might lower the immune system,” said Dr Hoa Nguyen, the former chair of the governor’s physicians advisory group.

He attributes the surge to the lifting of restrictions on social gatherings such as weddings and funerals, and believes Guam may have prematurely returned to normal as the Delta variant reached the island.

He added that the people who died despite being fully vaccinated all had multiple co-morbidities.

　アメリカではワクチン後感染率が１％くらいなのに、グアムでは３１％ 。そのグアムワクチン率なんと９０％。

　なんでこうなったのか？　　

　家族が密に暮らす場合が多く、また、人口に合併症をもったひとが多かったせいではないか、また、結婚式や葬式などの集会の制限を解除するのが早すぎたのでは、とも言われている。

　もっともワクチンをうった人たちは入院しても期間が2日程度で、ワクチン接種率が低ければもっとひどいことになったいただろう、と。

　ワクチンうって死亡したのは複数の合併症を持った患者だった、と。