(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) US Centers for Disease Control: "Very rare" infections after being fully immunized
China News Agency, Houston, May 25. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the 25th local time in a research report called "Breakthrough" New Coronary Infection Cases. Viruses are very rare."
On December 14, 2020, local time, Stephanie, a nurse at the Jewish Medical Center in Long Island, New York, made a triumphant expression after receiving the new crown vaccine.
On the same day, Pfizer's first batch of nearly 3 million doses of the new crown vaccine arrived in the United States.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
According to the Associated Press, "breakthrough" cases of new crown infection refer to cases that test positive for the new crown virus 14 days after the new crown vaccine is fully vaccinated.
The report shows that as of the end of April this year, 101 million Americans were fully vaccinated. According to reports from 46 states and territories in the United States, there were 10,300 "breakthrough" cases, which means that every 10,000 Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 Approximately 1 case in humans is infected with the new coronavirus.
CDC health officials said that no vaccine has perfect protection. It is expected that some vaccinated people will still be infected with the new crown virus. However, "it is very rare that infection with the new crown virus will still occur after the new crown vaccine is fully vaccinated."
The report shows that nearly two-thirds of all "breakthrough" cases are women, the median age of the infected person is 58 years, and about 25% of the infected people have no symptoms.
The report also showed that through genome sequencing, 57% of the most “breakthrough” cases were related to variants found in the UK, 25% were related to variants found in California, and a small number of cases were found in Brazil and South Africa. Related.
The report pointed out that given that most fully vaccinated Americans are not regularly tested for the new coronavirus, these data may not fully reflect the overall situation.
It is worth mentioning that according to the New York Times report, the CDC has stopped reporting the total number of “breakthrough” new crown infection cases from May 1 this year. The CDC stated that it will publish “breakthrough” cases of hospitalizations and deaths every week thereafter. Number of people.
According to the latest statistics from the CDC, as of the 17th, there were approximately 1,800 hospitalized cases of "breakthrough" new crown infection, with a total of 350 deaths.
In this regard, Johns Hopkins University Health Safety Center scholar Amesh Adalja believes that even relatively mild cases of new coronary disease may cause long-term health problems. If data on mild cases is not tracked, it is difficult to grasp The development trend of the epidemic. (Finish)