40% of Recent COVID Deaths Were Vaccinated

More than 40 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 in Illinois from the past week were people who were vaccinated. That’s according to the most recent seven-day data from the Illinois Department of Public Health death totals compared to the number of COVID-19 breakthrough cases that resulted in death. From Oct. 20-27, there were 215 COVID-related deaths. Of that, state data shows 91 were vaccine breakthrough cases, or 42.3 percent