CDC Studies 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Among People Already Vaccinated [View all]

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Ginger Eatman thought she was safe after getting her second COVID-19 vaccination in February. But she kept wearing her mask, using hand sanitizer and wiping down the carts at the grocery store anyway. A few weeks later, she noticed a scratchy throat.
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So Eatman got tested for the coronavirus. It came back positive.

"I was shocked. I almost cried," she says. "It was like: No, that can't be."

Eatman isn't alone in this experience. It's a long-recognized phenomenon called "vaccine breakthrough."
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The three vaccines authorized for use against COVID-19 in the United States appear to be at least 94% effective at preventing severe disease and death (starting about two weeks after a person is fully vaccinated), according to data reported so far, and about 80% effective at preventing infection. But that's not 100%, Omer notes, so a relatively small number of infections despite immunization with these very effective vaccines is to be expected.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/13/986411423/a-mystery-under-study-how-why-and-when-covid-vaccines-arent-fully-protective

Today is two weeks since my second Pfizer vaccine. I'm no longer feeling so good about it.