Breakthrough Infections, Explained

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For the past couple of weeks, some Americans have reported a curious phenomenon: They have caught the coronavirus despite being vaccinated. Vaccines are still doing their job by protecting against serious illness and hospitalization, but the frequency of so-called breakthrough infections has surprised experts. How do such cases happen, and what risks do they pose? Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adely.
0:10.5	Today, as the highly contagious Delta variant
0:14.7	rips through the United States,
0:16.7	a growing number of vaccinated Americans
0:19.7	are testing positive for COVID-19.
0:24.0	My colleague, a poor-vote Mondavili,
0:26.6	on the science and risk of breakthrough infections.
0:40.6	It's Monday, July 26th.
0:46.6	A poor-vote, how did this concept of breakthrough infections
0:50.6	first arrive on your radar?
0:53.6	I started to get emails from some readers telling me
0:57.6	that the things I was writing about the vaccine
1:00.2	being as good as they are were wrong.
1:03.8	At first, these were just emails from one person here,
1:06.8	one person there saying, I was vaccinated and I got infected.
1:10.9	But then a couple of weeks ago, the pace started to pick up
1:15.2	and the last 10 days or so, I got a whole bunch of these.
1:19.7	And the thing that caught my attention in those emails
1:23.2	is that they weren't just talking about one person.
1:25.9	They were now describing groups of people
1:28.7	who were all vaccinated and getting infected.
1:32.2	And that was new and also a little worrisome.
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