6 Fully Vaxxed Guests, Outdoor Wedding, Caught Delta: Ones w Pfizer, Moderna Shots Didn't Die [View all]

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- '6 fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding caught the Delta variant, but the ones with Pfizer and Moderna shots didn't die,' MSN/Business Insider, July 12, 2021. - Ed.

Six fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding in Texas in April came down with COVID-19 - a small outbreak that underscores how effective US-authorized vaccines are against even variants of the virus.

Though the vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna may not knock out every COVID-19 case, especially now that the more infectious Delta variant dominates across the US, they are very good at preventing serious illness and death from COVID-19.

A preprint study from Baylor College of Medicine found that only one person who'd gotten an Indian-made vaccine, Covaxin, died after attending the 92-person wedding near Houston in April. It was held in a "large, open-air tent" before the Delta variant was circulating widely in the US, the study said. Everyone in attendance was required to be fully vaccinated.

The study's authors suspect that the Delta variant was introduced at the wedding by two people who had traveled from India and tested negative before their flight but developed symptoms in the US. Two men in their 60s had the most severe COVID-19 cases. All six guests who contracted symptomatic COVID-19 after the wedding were over 50...

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*Yahoo News version of the article, almost identical except for this info.:

- Guests were required to be fully vaccinated at the event, though that policy operated on the honor system.

- All the COVID-19 patients said they'd had close encounters with those two people (2 travelers from India) during the wedding, according to the study.

- The other people who contracted symptomatic COVID-19 after the wedding had preconditions including hypertension and diabetes or were classified as overweight, the study said.

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