It is inevitable that some people who have been completely vaccinated against COVID-19 will continue to receive a “discovered” infection. Anthony Fauci
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A revolutionary infection is when a person contracts a disease despite being vaccinated against it. Fauci noted that there will be hundreds, and perhaps thousands of cases of fully vaccinated people who become infected with COVID-19.
The key is to compare the small number of infections with the tens and ultimately hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated, Fauci said.
“We see this with all vaccines, in clinical trials, in the real world,” Fauci said during a White House briefing. “No vaccine is 100% effective or efficient, which means you will always see detectable infections, no matter how effective your vaccine is.”
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted the best example of infections detected with the flu vaccine. The flu virus moves quickly and even during a good year, the vaccine is only 40 to 60% effective.
However, even if a vaccine fails to protect against infection, it often protects against serious illness.
“If you get vaccinated, you will no doubt be less likely to get the flu. But even if you have the flu and get sick, vaccination can reduce the severity and duration of the disease and help you get rid of problems, ”Fauci said.
During the briefing, Fauci also addressed an Israeli prepress study who made headlines over the weekend, who seem to have found variant B.1.351 may somewhat evade protection against the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
“With all due respect to my Israeli friends, I think the prepress was as confusing as you could be,” Fauci said. “The only thing that is not confusing is that two doses are very good” if you want to be fully protected.
Fauci said the study showed that people receiving two doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine were more likely to become infected with variant B.1.351 than people who had not been vaccinated at all.
Fauci said vaccine protection means that if an infection is unlikely to enter, it will probably be the “more difficult option,” but “that doesn’t mean you’re more likely to get it.”