As COVID-19 continues to surge and the delta variant spreads in Los Angeles County, health officials are seeing more breakthrough cases in those who are fully vaccinated, but they have a lower risk of hospitalization and death, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health…

The case rate for unvaccinated people is 243 cases per 100,000 people, while the case rate for fully vaccinated people is 66 cases per 100,000 people.

Those who are fully vaccinated and become infected are also much less likely to get severely ill or die from COVID-19.

Vaccinated people are about 14 times less likely to be hospitalized than those who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

The hospitalization rate for fully vaccinated people is slightly less than 1 hospitalization per 100,000 people and almost no deaths are reported among people who are fully vaccinated.