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tblastx returning hits with 33% query cover for human genes against the human genome

I'm running command line tblastx for some human genes as the query sequences against the human genome as the target sequence. Almost all the searches are returning a query cover (qcovhsp) of 33%. I'm thinking that it is no coincidence that amino acids are 3 nucleotides long and that my query covers are ~ 1/3. Can anyone give me some insight as to why these values are being returned and not 100, as is returned when I use blastn?

blast tblastx query cover

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