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The U.S. CDC has released some information on breakthrough COVID-19 infections on people who have been fully vaccinated. The bad news: 5,800 people have gotten the coronavirus in spite of the vaccine. The good news: that’s out of more than 66 million people, for a breakthrough rate of 0.008%.
When you get your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, evidence indicates your protection begins about two weeks later — before you get the second dose. That’s good news, but it doesn’t mean you can skip the second dose.
The U.S. government maintains a database called VAERS, to which anybody can file a report if they think something bad happened to them after receiving a vaccine. It’s an important tool in keeping tabs on vaccine safety, but it’s also being mined by anti-vaccine activists to make vaccines seem scarier…
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