crew members, the ship will
return to Galveston tomorrow. Carnival says all of its crew
Carnival says all of its crew
members have been vaccinated
and that’s a growing problem.
Fully vaccinated, people who
test positive for COVID-19.
are called
breakthrough cases.
>> And since January of this year, the city of Houston
year, the city of Houston
reports more than 3100 of those
cases out of the nearly one and
a half million fully vaccinated
Houstonians the state of Texas started tracking some of this
started tracking some of this
data back in February. They
have just 343 reported cases of
what they call clinically
severe breakthrough cases. As you can
breakthrough cases. As you can
see there’s not a complete
count of these cases. So
tonight KPRC 2 investigator,
Mario Diaz reveals just why
that is and the efforts to get a clearer picture of these
a clearer picture of these
infections.
How accurate.
>> Are officials with these breakthrough I don’t think that
breakthrough I don’t think that
they know
for sure.
>> This is the challenge
regarding breakthrough cases.
We’ve heard more about them of
late. But what you probably
have not heard about is the system used
heard about is the system used
to catalog these rare cases,
unfortunately, right now we
are not systematically tracking breakthrough cases. I’m not in
breakthrough cases. I’m not in
the county, not in this state
and not in the nation as a
gentle enough is an associate
professor with the UT School of Public Health. She also has
Public Health. She also has
been an advisor shares County regarding its covid response is
regarding its covid response is
leader of medical and discovery
>> by which we can track these too big. So that House or any
too big. So that House or any
after seeing this. Again, if
♪ >> Doctor Joseph varon has been
>> Doctor Joseph varon has been
relentless in battling covid
United Memorial medical Center are small in comparison to the
are small in comparison to the
number of unvaccinated people
being overwhelmed by the
Delta variant.
>> Barone says a centralized
system to track breakthroughs is needed. We need to have a
is needed. We need to have a
uniform, a message, put a
uniform.
We’ll tracking face. There is
some data being collected, but health officials admit the
health officials admit the
system is limited. This is
because the Texas Department of
state health services only
counts breakthrough cases that
result in hospitalization
or fatality. The state is
simply following what the CDC
called for this past spring.
past spring.
>> According to doctor
very clearly that they weren’t
going to follow the mild or
moderate breakthrough cases.
The only white snow that
hospitalizations and that’s and that continues to be.
that continues to be.
>> What about the vast number
of positive breakthrough cases.
The don’t result in hospitalization. Those cases.
hospitalization. Those cases.
If law.
Our key to understanding the
virus’s impact. I want to know
what kind of like feeling this
is one of the snow.
the snow.
>> Corning us much. We need
should the
CDC recalibrate their system
very much U.S. representative
Sheila Jackson Lee is the congressional chair of the
congressional chair of the
bipartisan task force on covid.
>> I’m
not satisfied. Lead is in favor
of a centralized system.
It is an issue that is front and center for me over the next
and center for me over the next
couple of days. I’ll be talking
leadership and to ensure that
they move the ball on this
issue.
>> We know that they’re going to be many a And you know, we
to be many a And you know, we
need to learn. ♪
>> It is challenging to find a
positive in any
covid diagnosis. But doctor of
roan says he has noticed a big
one in covid breakthrough cases. They are
breakthrough cases. They are
far from deadly. In fact, grown
tells me that he has yet to
have any fully vaccinated. Patients die after a