While reports have emerged of fully vaccinated people becoming infected with Covid-19, health experts say these cases are to be expected. vaccine covid19 vaccineforSA
Speaking during a media briefing on government efforts in the fight against Covid-19 and the national vaccination roll-out programme, this morning co-principal investigator of the Sisonke implementation study, Professor Glenda Gray said about 96% of these breakthrough cases are mild.
Gray said “We do see breakthrough infections and these all happen to be mild. Around 96% breakthrough infections are mild in health-care workers and in terms of severe and death there’s been less than 0.005%.” “The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is safe; there's been no safety we detected in this cohort of people. The side effects we are seeing are in line with what's seen globally. We have seen two rare blood clot events occurred among trial participants, but both cases have fully recovered and will continue to evaluate vaccine for a further 2 years,” she said.
In looking at the effectiveness of the J&J vaccine, Gray said they used three data sets, two came from medical insurances, one came from the Western Cape persal database.
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