COVID rates climbing among Whatcom’s fully vaccinated, but remain lower than unvaccinated

Whatcom County is seeing its fully vaccinated residents increasingly impacted by COVID-19, but at rates that are still lower than for unvaccinated residents.

There were 559 new COVID cases between Aug. 15 and 21, according to data released Friday by the Whatcom County Health Department.

Of those 147 — or 26.2% — were “breakthrough” cases among fully-vaccinated residents, according to the health department data, which added that that rate was up from the previous week.