With COVID-19 rising among vaccinated, health experts urge booster shots--New Hampshire data

Oct. 31—Nearly a third of those hospitalized with COVID-19 in New Hampshire in recent weeks were fully vaccinated, according to the state health department.

Lori Shibinette, commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, said last week that breakthrough cases among those vaccinated for COVID-19 are rising, as immunity from the vaccines wanes amid the spread of the aggressive delta variant.

That makes it all the more urgent, public health leaders say, for eligible adults to get booster shots.

Over the summer, Shibinette said, about 90% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 were unvaccinated.

"We watched that start to change over the last two months, so it was about 80-20 in September and it's about 70-30 in October," she said at a media briefing....

Gov. Chris Sununu warned at the same briefing that the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. ...