Was surprised to hear today that one of my wife's coworkers tested positive. They work in medicine and the coworker was vaccinated back in February with Pfizer. Her husband first tested positive two weeks ago and has been quite sick and in the hospital recently although appears he'll recover. Coworker wife just realized she lost her sense of taste so she got tested and surprisingly was positive. Just sharing a relatively first hand account as I was fairy surprised to hear about it and thought others might be interested.
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Vaccine is 90-95% effective against virus, not 100%.
But it is near 100% against hospitalization or death from virus. Sounds like her case is very mild which is good news.
But it is near 100% against hospitalization or death from virus. Sounds like her case is very mild which is good news.
And to translate that 95% number further in the context of the study, that means that for every 20 people with sufficient exposure to get COVID, 1 would actually get COVID. Or at least one would develop enough symptoms to get tested. If that makes sense.Aston94 said:
Vaccine is 90-95% effective against virus, not 100%.
But it is near 100% against hospitalization or death from virus. Sounds like her case is very mild which is good news.
The study didn't test anyone that was vaccinated unless they developed symptoms. So it is entirely possible that a decent number of those in the study had asymptomatic infections thanks to the vaccine. Whereas they might have had symptomatic infection if they hadn't gotten the vaccine. I think that's unlikely, but the study didn't answer that question.
CDC is reporting 5800 breakthrough cases out of 84 million doses given. 7% of those people were hospitalized with 74 deaths.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-19/the-shock-and-reality-of-catching-covid-after-a-vaccine%3fcontext=amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-19/the-shock-and-reality-of-catching-covid-after-a-vaccine%3fcontext=amp
The two people that tested positive after the vaccine that I know just lost smell. Both were overweight and only got tested since they had family members that did and it was required for the kids to go back to school. If you look at the hospitalizations and deaths I would assume they were in the high risk category to start with.
I wonder how many of these are false positives.
We've seen several pro sports coaches/athletes, who have been vaccinated, held out because of a false positive. Then they re-test and are negative.
The average joe doesnt typically have that luxury and just Quarantines for a bit.
We've seen several pro sports coaches/athletes, who have been vaccinated, held out because of a false positive. Then they re-test and are negative.
The average joe doesnt typically have that luxury and just Quarantines for a bit.
Didn't the latest numbers have 1 in 1000 testing positive? I suppose the difference could be that only 20 of the 1000 would have direct contact. But, although this is possible, it's very rare.
That would mean 99.9% effective at preventing Covid. I haven't seen that number anywhere.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-identifies-small-group-of-covid-19-infections-among-fully-vaccinated-patients-11618490232?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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Incidence is rare, occurring in only 0.008% of cases and in line with expectations
I stand corrected
Reminder -- the vaccine is to prevent severe disease / death. People will still contract COVID after vaccination, but hopefully only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. This is the goal.
Contract it at a rate of 1 in 1000.....Ranger222 said:
Reminder -- the vaccine is to prevent severe disease / death. People will still contract COVID after vaccination, but hopefully only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. This is the goal.
Very rare. Some people still mistakenly think it doesn't protect you from getting it, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It protects you from getting it more so than anything else we have tried short of not leaving your room for 14 straight months.ORAggieFan said:Contract it at a rate of 1 in 1000.....Ranger222 said:
Reminder -- the vaccine is to prevent severe disease / death. People will still contract COVID after vaccination, but hopefully only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. This is the goal.
And apparently even less is the chance of spreading it, even if you do contract a minor to asymptomatic case. And decreases duration giving you less time to spread it at that.
And this is why Fauci, CDC, etc must immediately change the messaging. Once fully vaccinated (two weeks post final shot) one should stop with any social distancing, masks or anything else and live normal.beerad12man said:Very rare. Some people still mistakenly think it doesn't protect you from getting it, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It protects you from getting it more so than anything else we have tried short of not leaving your room for 14 straight months.ORAggieFan said:Contract it at a rate of 1 in 1000.....Ranger222 said:
Reminder -- the vaccine is to prevent severe disease / death. People will still contract COVID after vaccination, but hopefully only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. This is the goal.
And apparently even less is the chance of spreading it, even if you do contract a minor to asymptomatic case. And decreases duration giving you less time to spread it at that.
People can still contract Covid, but the real world data out of Israel has it at over 90% effective at preventing even asymptomatic infection.Ranger222 said:
Reminder -- the vaccine is to prevent severe disease / death. People will still contract COVID after vaccination, but hopefully only experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. This is the goal.
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