Over the past 24 hours, the New England Journal of Medicine published a correspondence letter from researchers at the University of California, San Diego title “ Resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Health System Workforce ” [1]. In this letter the authors report that by March 2021, 76% of their healthcare staff was fully vaccinated, and by July, they reached an 83% vaccination rate for their workforce. They collected data using only workers that demonstrated at least one symptom during daily screening, and that had a positive COVID19 PCR test across both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. This method cultivated in the figure below that I would describe as cathartic for those who are in the unvaccinated crowd out there. We can see that the rate of the symptomatic vaccinated workers has increased by a much sharper degree than the unvaccinated. In fact, according to the table from the article below, the vaccinated group only made up 19% - 33% of symptoma...
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