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Schleiz (dpa / th) - After the first round of the corona vaccination, there was a major outbreak of infection in a nursing home in the Saale-Orla district in East Thuringia.
However, medical officer Torsten Bossert immediately denied a connection between vaccination and new infections, as the district office announced on Thursday.
“From a biological point of view, it is impossible for the PCR tests to turn out positive due to the vaccination.
It is just bad luck that there was a corona outbreak in the window of time before effective vaccination protection could be established. "
Scientists currently assume that it takes at least a week, but more likely 10 to 14 days, until the body reacts to the vaccination and develops an initial immune response, the medical officer said.
Complete vaccination protection only develops a few days after the second vaccination.
The first positive rapid test results in the facility now affected were found on the eighth day after the vaccination.
According to Bossert, checks using the more reliable PCR tests have now confirmed 24 new infections in the facility, which it has previously been possible to keep corona-free.
The residents, who could hardly be isolated from one another due to dementia with a high urge to move at the same time, apparently the virus was able to spread quickly.
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Comparable cases from other federal states gave reason to hope that at least a certain level of protection could have built up, so that those affected become less seriously ill.
As the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection has emphasized, this depends both on the time interval between vaccination and infection and on the immune system of those affected.
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