vaccination
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It’s Actually Encouraging That 5,800 Vaccinated People Got COVID
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%.
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Vaccine Death Reports Are Not What They Seem
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 than they are.
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Make Sure Pharmacies Are Recording Your Vaccinations Properly
Pharmacists are vaccinating more and more people, but those shots are not always ending up in your immunisation record, our report shows.