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| Fully vaccinated adults are at much lower risk of severe illness and hospitalization, including so-called long COVID, according to a new large-scale study that adds to the growing body of evidence of the vaccines' benefits. |
| The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, used data from more than 1.2 million partially and fully vaccinated adults in the U.K. from December 2020 to July 2021. |
| Fourteen days or more after the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca or Moderna vaccines, just 0.5% reported a breakthrough infection. After the second dose, that number dropped to fewer than 0.2%. |
| It's Thursday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know. |
| • | About 1 in 6 who are vaccinated say they're keeping that information a secret from at least some people, while more than 1 in 17 aren't telling anyone, according to a Harris Poll survey conducted exclusively for USA TODAY. | | • | Recent jumps in U.S. case counts now have the U.S. accounting for more than a quarter of the world's new infections, a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. | | • | Podcast host Joe Rogan announced he has tested positive for COVID-19 after he dismissed the usefulness of the vaccine on his podcast. | | • | Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced $60 million for hospital staffing support to bring 750 additional nurses to the state for eight weeks amid a surge in cases. | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 39.4 million COVID-19 cases and 642,800 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 218.8 million cases and more than 4.5 million deaths. About 62% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 52% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Among U.S. adults, 74% have received at least one shot, and about 64% are fully vaccinated. |
| Tracking the pandemic: See the numbers in your area here. See where cases are rising here. See vaccination rates here. And here, compare vaccinations rates worldwide and see which countries are using which vaccines. |
| – Grace Hauck, USA TODAY breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck |
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