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COVID rates climbing among Whatcom鈥檚 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 .

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