ABC News has obtained an internal CDC document which shows how rare so-called “breakthrough” cases of Covid-19 infection among the fully vaccinated are. They report the following:
With more than 156 million Americans fully vaccinated, nationwide, approximately 153,000 symptomatic breakthrough cases are estimated to have occurred as of last week, representing approximately 0.098% of those fully vaccinated, according to an unpublished internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document obtained by ABC News. These estimates reflect only the adult population and do not include asymptomatic breakthrough infections.
Translation: If you are fully vaccinated against it, your likelihood of actually getting sick from Covid-19 is roughly 1 in 1000. And hospitalization is much more rare still, something like 6 in 100,000.
If you accept these figures as accurate, being vaccinated certainly looks like a bet you should take. If you believe the government is lying, as it sometimes does, or is wrong, as it sometimes is, I understand your skepticism even if I don’t share it. With nearly half the population fully vaccinated, if those were dying left and right we’d certainly know about it, it couldn’t be covered up.
Reading between the lines, some number of the fully vaccinated apparently “get” Covid-19 but have few or no symptoms. These are only rarely diagnosed if they are, for some extraneous reason, tested. Presumably they could still transmit the disease to others without suffering its effects themselves. This will be used as a justification for requiring us to wear masks even though vaccinated.
