From: slider@anashram.com

More than 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid-19 in the
U.S. even though they’ve been fully vaccinated, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So far, at least 750 fully vaccinated people have died after contracting
Covid, but the CDC noted that 142 of those fatalities were asymptomatic or unrelated to Covid-19, according to data as of Monday that was released
Friday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/covid-breakthrough-cases-cdc-says-more-than-4100-people-have-been-hospitalized-or-died-after-vaccination.html

The CDC received 3,907 reports of people who have been hospitalized with breakthrough Covid infections, despite being fully vaccinated. Of those,
more than 1,000 of those patients were asymptomatic or their
hospitalizations weren’t related to Covid-19, the CDC said.

“To be expected,” Dr. Paul Offit, a top advisor to the Food and Drug Administration on children’s vaccines told CNBC. “The vaccines aren’t 100%
effective, even against severe disease. Very small percentage of the
600,000 deaths.”

Breakthrough cases are Covid-19 infections that bypass vaccine protection.
They are very rare and many are asymptomatic. The vaccines are highly
effective but don’t block every infection. Pfizer and Moderna’s phase
three clinical studies found that their two-dose regimens were 95% and 94% effective at blocking Covid-19, respectively, while Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine was found to be 66% effective in its studies. All three, however, have been found to be extremely effective in preventing people
from getting severely sick from Covid.

The CDC doesn’t count every breakthrough case. It stopped counting all breakthrough cases May 1 and now only tallies those that lead to hospitalization or death, a move the agency was criticized for by health experts.

Most Americans have received at least one shot of the two currently
authorized mRNA vaccines. The U.S. has administered 178.3 million shots
and fully vaccinated 46% of its population.

“You are just as likely to be killed by a meteorite as die from Covid
after a vaccine,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California San Francisco, told CNBC. “In the big scheme of things, the vaccines are tremendously powerful.”

Efficacy rates decrease slightly for variants like alpha and delta, with studies indicating 88% efficacy against the delta strain after two doses
of the Pfizer vaccine. It was unclear if any of the reported breakthrough
cases were caused by variants.

In Israel and the United Kingdom, concerns about the delta variant are
rising after growing reports of breakthrough infections.

Even with 80% of adults vaccinated, Chezy Levy, director-general of
Israel’s Health Ministry, said the delta variant is responsible for 70% of new infections in the country. Levy also said that one-third of those new infections were in vaccinated individuals.

In the U.K., Public Health England released a report that found 26 out of
73 deaths caused by the delta variant occurred in fully vaccinated people
from June 8 to June 14. Most of the deaths occurred in unvaccinated individuals.

“Determination of whether hospitalizations and deaths are more represented
in immunocompromised patients and the type of vaccine received will be important for future guidance,” Chin-Hong said.

On June 7, the CDC received reports of 3,459 breakthrough cases that led
to hospitalization or death. On June 18, that number was updated to 3,729,
an increase of 270 cases. Today, the number stands at 4,115.

An overwhelming majority, 76%, of the hospitalizations and deaths from breakthrough cases occurred in people over the age of 65.

″We do not have the years and years of data we have for vaccines against other airborne pathogens — and therefore it is really essential that the
CDC provides up to date reporting on breakthrough cases,” David Edwards, aerosol scientist and Harvard University professor, told CNBC.

The CDC says its numbers are “likely an undercount” of all Covid
infections in vaccinated people because the data relies on passive and voluntary reporting.

### - there was bound to be 'some' breakthrough infections & deaths with vaccines that are less than 100% effective and as that kind of data now
arrives to be considered, figures that are, of course, (cough cough)
mostly underreported and somewhat obscured as per usual... the question of
if these figures are the result of any new variants remaining unlooked at
as yet coz we don't, rather conveniently, erm, quite know...

the nightmare scenario being that it IS because of these variants, in
which case we can prolly all look forward to suitably modified booster
shots that will likely start becoming available in the fall... plus
whether or not these 'boosters' are then dependent on already having had
the previous shots to work properly remains unknown at this time...

all we know for sure is that the ONLY thing that has absolutely proven to
work, so far, being that of total lockdowns for extended periods of time:
ya locks it all down, the virus stops spreading and dies out, and the
virus goes away... that is, unless you lift that lockdown too soon for it
to actually die out altogether and then it just comes back everywhere
almost over night as demonstrated by the uk's then need for a second full lockdown even more severe than the first! variant or not, nothing can
seemingly survive such a prolonged regime! it stops spreading and
eventually dies out when those already infected either die or recover from
it!

which is precisely what it may even all come down to in the end as being
just about the only sure-fire way to get rid of this shit once and for all?

only we didn't go that route at all did we huh, nah we went what we thought/hoped was the quicker + cheaper route, but which is actually
turning out to have probably been the most expensive option of the lot!
(duh!)

yes! an initial 5 months total lockdown would have been incredibly
expensive to have to weather! but not as expensive, as it turns out, as 3
or more shorter lockdowns spread over a year and an endless global
vaccination regime, and with yet more to come!?!

i mean, boy did we screw that up or fuckin' wot??? lol

veryyyy few places actually got it right! new zealand and australia just
about right on the very edge of doing it correctly enough?

think of it this way: it would have actually been cheaper AND far more effective in the long run to have just locked down the whole planet for 5 months solid when this thing first began instead of doing what we did?

as it is we can't now get out of it, mainly because we're all now unlikely
to be able to 'afford' the kind of sustained lockdown required to end it altogether, and as such are stuck in a regime of partial lockdowns and
annually amended booster shots... possibly forever!

what a fuckin' mess!?

(and we're supposed to be... smart??)

meanwhile, and hidden right at the bottom of the news so no one will pick
up on it too tough, comes the first mandatory inoculations for uk front
line care workers working in resident care homes, no doubt soon to be
followed by other similar front line workers such as doctors and nurses,
and maybe even hospital cleaners too, who knows!

i.e., having had nearly all the carroted volunteers done, next comes the
big stick to get it done to the rest... 'or else' type regime?

erm, excuse me son, have you had all your vaccinations? and have you also
had all 56 booster shots?

no?? then am sorry, coz no you can't use the local supermarket, or go into
any of the other shops in the high street either! no valid/up to date certificate means online shopping & delivery only mate! you know that! now
get the fuck outta here!!!

see wot i mean?

it's dystopia(s) all the way down!

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