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5,800 Fully Vaccinated Americans Have Contracted COVID-19, 74 Dead:
CDC
BY ZACHARY STIEBER April 15, 2021 Updated: April 15, 2021
Some 5,800 Americans contracted COVID-19 despite being fully
vaccinated against the virus that causes it, federal officials said Thursday.
The Americans got the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which
causes COVID-19, despite getting two shots of the Pfizer or Moderna
vaccines, or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told The Epoch Times via
email.
Of the 5,800 fully vaccinated people who were confirmed as so-called breakthrough cases, nearly 400 required treatment at hospitals and 74
died.
A little over 40 percent of the infections were in people 60 years of
age or older and 65 percent were female. The CDC declined to make a state-by-state breakdown available, though it has developed a national
database where state health department investigators can enter, store,
and manage data for cases in their jurisdiction.
The figures were for cases through April 13.
More than 78 million people have been fully vaccinated in the United
States as of April 15.
To date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in case
demographics or vaccine characteristics, the CDC said.
COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the
pandemic under control. All of the available vaccines have been proven effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
However, like is seen with other vaccines, we expect thousands of
vaccine breakthrough cases will occur even though the vaccine is
working as expected.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told a congressional hearing on
Thursday that the causes of the breakthrough cases are being probed.
Some of these breakthroughs are, of course, failure of an immune
response in the host, and then some of them we worry might be related
to a variant that is circulating, so were looking at both, she said.
The number of cases the CDC has identified does not include people who contracted COVID-19 less than two weeks after their final dose,
according to Walensky.
States last month began reporting numbers for people who had gotten
infected despite full vaccination. Epidemiologists in Washington state identified 217 of the cases, five of whom died. In Michigan, 246 of
the cases were recorded between Jan. 1 and March 31. Three of those
patients perished.
Texas, South Carolina, and Oregon are among the other states that have
reported over 100 cases among residents.
Finding evidence of vaccine breakthrough cases reminds us that, even
if you have been vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask, practice
social distancing, and wash your hands to prevent spreading COVID-19
to others who have not been vaccinated, Washington states Health
Secretary, Umair Shah, said in a statement. We encourage everyone to
get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible, and encourage friends,
loved ones, and co-workers to do the same.
According to U.S. drug regulators, Pfizers vaccine is 95 percent
effective in preventing infection of the CCP virus. Modernas was shown
in a clinical trial to be 94.1 percent effective, while Johnson &
Johnsons was 66.9 percent effective. The third jab was tested when
variants were circulating, unlike the others.
The percentages are for two weeks after the final vaccination.
The percentage of vaccine breakthroughs in a population depends on
multiple factors, including vaccine efficacy, the amount of virus
circulating, and the length of time since vaccination, according to
Natalie Dean, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the
University of Florida.
I love to see small numbers as much as anyone, but know that numbers
like this cannot be directly interpreted as a measure of vaccine
efficacy (although I have a feeling they will be). We can only
interpret them against a background rate in unvaccinated people, Dean
wrote on Twitter.
Similarly, most breakthroughs have been in elderly adults should not
be read as the vaccine is less effective in elderly adults. The
majority of vaccinations (and the longest amount of follow-up time)
have been in elderly adults. Again, we need more info to interpret.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a briefing last week that the breakthrough cases are not a cause for concern.
I think the important thing is to look at what the denominator of
vaccinated people is, because it is very likelyand what were hearing
at least indirectly, and were certainly going to be confirming
thatthat that number of individuals who were breakthrough infections
is not at all incompatible with a 90-plus percent vaccine efficacy, he
said.
So, I dont think that there needs to be concern about any shift or
change in the efficacy of the vaccine.
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