Many employers are planning for a return to in-person work soon. Ahead of our reopening, we have shared new reliable information about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines with our employees. I wanted to pass along those same facts to you so you could share it with your own team members.

From the Indiana Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control:

For fully vaccinated individuals in Indiana, the chance of getting COVID-19 is less than 1%.

  • Fewer than 1,000 of these breakthrough cases have occurred
  • Just over 30 hospitalizations among this group, at a .0017% chance
  • Only two ICU admissions, at .0001% occurrence, with zero fatalities

On a related note, unvaccinated people account for over 99% of the state’s current coronavirus cases.

Over the last month, the risk of blood clots associated with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine has been publicized. The two-shot mRNA vaccines – Pfizer and Moderna, which make up over 90% of the vaccines given – have not shown this same small incidence of clotting.

The blood-clotting risk is much more prevalent from getting COVID-19 than a vaccine.

  • Risk of clotting if infected by COVID: 165,000 per million
  • Risk of clotting from the J&J vaccine:
    • one per million for men of all ages and women 50 and over
    • seven per million for women ages 18-49

If you have any vaccine-related questions, please contact the Chamber’s Wellness Council of Indiana; executive director Jennifer Pferrer is available at (317) 264-2168 and jpferrer@indianachamber.com.