CDC Study Says COVID-19 Can Spread In Vaccinated

Sept. 21, 2021

A new study of Texas prison inmates provides more evidence that coronavirus can spread even in groups where most people are vaccinated.

A COVID-19 outbreak at a federal prison in July and August infected 172 male inmates in two prison housing units, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Tuesday.

About 80% of the inmates in the units had been vaccinated. More than 90% of the unvaccinated inmates wound up being infected, as did 70% of the fully vaccinated prisoners.

Severe illness, however, was more common among the unvaccinated. The hospitalization rate was almost 10 times higher for them compared with those who got the shots.

It echoes research into a July outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where several hundred people were infected -- about three-quarters of whom were fully vaccinated.

Such reports have prompted a renewed push by health officials for even vaccinated people to wear masks and take other precautions. They believe the delta variant, a version of coronavirus that spreads more easily, and possibly waning immunity may be playing a role.

The authors did not identify the prison, but media reports in July detailed a similar-sized outbreak at the federal prison in Texarkana. — Associated Press

More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e3.htm

Vaccines used: Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) 13 Moderna 50 Pfizer-BioNTech 122

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Hexbear decides to stop being a doom porn aggregator.

    I really, really hate people who say this. 3000 people are dying daily in the USA of covid. Shit is really bad. It's pretty doom and gloom. Yes, it's almost mostly because of antivaxxers, but still. The scenario is in now way even close to controlled right now. Reality at this point has a doomer bias at this point.

    Imagine saying to someone two years ago, that there will be a global pandemic. In the USA, accounting for excess deaths, over a million people will die in a year and a half. There will be vaccines, but because of a new variant of the pandemic virus, and 30%+ of American's refusing to get vaccinated, deaths will return to pre vaccine levels during spikes. They would call that hellworld, because it is.