Breakthrough coronavirus cases are disappointing ― but most of them are also evidence that the shots are working.
are among unvaccinated individuals. If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to worry about getting very sick or dying.
“Of course, you’re going to hear stories here and there of people who are fully vaccinated and catch COVID because there are a lot of us out there who are fully vaccinated,” said Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University. “But the people who are in the hospital are people who were not vaccinated.
But, as mentioned, that can be seen as a sign that the vaccine is doing its job. Your immune system is remembering how to fight off the virus and prevent it from becoming severe ― a way better outcome than what happened before the shots were being distributed.Long-term complications have occurred with even mild cases of COVID-19. Long-haulers are living with debilitating symptoms, such as nerve pain, neurological issues, fatigue and oxygen complications.
Gandhi noted that this is being studied to confirm the hypothesis, but right now experts haven’t seen any indication of long COVID after a breakthrough case, and there’s no reason to assume otherwise.Just because you know someone who got into a car accident while wearing a seatbelt doesn’t mean that you believe seatbelts are useless.
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