Nurses administer the Pfizer vaccine to Manhattan nursing home residents on Dec. 21, 2020.
Twenty-two people in Chicago nursing homes tested positive for COVID-19 (Chinese Communist virus) two weeks or more after being fully vaccinated, according to public health department officials Wednesday (April 21).
At the Illinois City (IL) skilled nursing facility (SNF), 12 residents and 10 staff members, out of 627 people diagnosed with the CCA virus, were diagnosed with the virus 14 days or more after being fully vaccinated.
All of these individuals were fully vaccinated, i.e., completed a second dose of vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer, or received a one-dose vaccination from Johnson & Johnson, and two weeks had elapsed.
Cases that have been fully vaccinated but are still infected with the CCP virus are known as breakthrough cases.
Of the 22 breakthrough cases identified by the Chicago Department of Public Health, 14 were asymptomatic, four required hospitalization (two of which were allegedly unrelated to the CCP virus), and one died.
The one patient who died was experiencing fatigue and respiratory symptoms prior to being diagnosed with the infection. The patient was tested for CCP virus infection at the time of admission. Seven days later, this patient died.
The death certificate listed complications from the CCP virus infection as the primary cause of death, along with chronic kidney disease.
In a report published by federal health officials, the researchers wrote, “Although the number of cases of SARS-CoV-2 (CCA virus) infection observed in the fully vaccinated population is small, these cases demonstrate the need for skilled nursing facilities to follow routine recommendations and control measures for infection prevention and to increase the number of residents and staff living in skilled nursing facilities among the vaccination rate.”
They added, “It is unknown whether asymptomatic individuals who have been vaccinated can transmit SARS-CoV-2 (CCA virus). Therefore, skilled nursing facilities should continue to require isolation for those residents who are in close contact with infected individuals.”
The time period for the study was from the date of the first vaccination at each skilled nursing facility through March 31.
During this period, nearly 8,000 residents and 6,824 staff members at these facilities were fully vaccinated.
As of April 13, there were approximately 5,814 breakthrough cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal health agency, throughout the United States. The cases occurred between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 13, 2020.
A spokesperson for the agency declined to provide details related to each state by case type. Of those who were still infected with the CDC virus after being fully vaccinated, 396 of them were hospitalized and 74 died.
But a CDC spokesman said the number of breakthrough cases was not surprising because no vaccine for the C.C.V. can provide an effectiveness rate of more than 95 percent. As of April 15, more than 78 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus.
In an email, the spokesman said, “To date, no surprising patterns have been found in terms of demographics or vaccine characteristics.”
He said, “The CCP virus vaccine is effective and is a key tool in controlling the outbreak. All available vaccines have been shown to be effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death. However, like other vaccines, we expect that even if the vaccine works as expected, there will still be thousands of cases of vaccine breakthrough infections.”
Mark Tompkins, a professor at the Center for Vaccines and Immunology, said he was not surprised by the number of breakthrough cases.
No vaccine or naturally acquired immunity is 100 percent effective,” he told The Epoch Times by email. That, combined with high levels of SARS-CoV-2 infection or virus transmission, means we will see breakthrough cases. We are nowhere near herd immunity.”
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