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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2021 23:04:23 GMT
The team focused on those fully vaccinated people and found a quarter of them (14 people) had severe or critical disease and required supplementary oxygen support. Four were in the intensive care unit, one on a mechanical ventilator and three died. The patients with severe disease ranged in age from 65 to 95 years old and had a median age of 80.5, the researchers said. They had preexisting comorbidities including cardiovascular disease, lung disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Some patients were on immunosuppressive drugs that may impact vaccine efficacy. A large body of research shows COVID-19 vaccines are effective and have been instrumental in curbing the pandemic, but in rare cases people who are fully vaccinated contract the virus and get what are called breakthrough cases. In even rarer cases, a breakthrough case results in severe illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has received reports of 14,115 patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died. This accounts for an extremely small percentage of the 178 million fully vaccinated individuals in the United States. "Vaccines continue to remain highly effective in preventing severe illness due to COVID-19," Chun wrote. "The likelihood of developing severe COVID-19 infection remains far lower for those vaccinated compared to those unvaccinated. Emerging data on breakthrough cases will need to be closely followed to determine the most effective strategies for booster vaccines." The study was done before the highly transmissible delta variant became the predominant COVID variant in the United States. Chun said more research is needed to determine the impact of the delta variant on breakthrough cases.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2021 5:14:26 GMT
Cheryl Burke has tested positive for breakthrough COVID-19. The Dancing with the Stars pro, 37, announced the news via Instagram on Sunday night, one day before she was scheduled to return to the ballroom on Monday for her second dance with her celebrity partner, Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby. Burke confirmed she was "fully vaccinated" with Moderna. http://instagram.com/p/CUTx9UdAs1C "The PCR test came back, and it came back positive," she said through tears in an emotional video. "I feel so bad for Cody. I feel like I'm letting him down. I just feel like s---, to be quite honest. And it's so overwhelming because it's Sunday, and the show's tomorrow." "I figured I should let you guys know since I've been as open and as real and vulnerable as I could be here," she continued. "I just hope I didn't spread it. For those of you who don't think COVID is a real thing, it's f------ real, dude. So I have to quarantine for 10 days and I've been ordered to stay home … I'll be in bed. I can't believe this happened." It's unclear at this time what Burke's diagnosis will mean for Rigsby's fate on the show. ABC did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2021 19:13:54 GMT
Melissa Joan Hart Wins $1 Million For Kids and Families - Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Melissa Joan Hart wins in the bonus round, locking in a big donation for her charity of choice, Youth Villages. How big? How about more than one million dollars?!? From 'Celebrity Wheel of Fortune' season 2, episode 4. Watch 'Celebrity Wheel of Fortune' SUNDAYS 8/7c on ABC. Stream on Hulu.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2022 18:57:13 GMT
Covid-19 - Breakthrough infections and vaccine efficacy On Sunday 27 December 2020 (week 52), the first Dane was vaccinated against covid-19. The rollout of vaccines have been around since then, and at the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) they are constantly monitored the vaccination effort and its significance for societal infection.This report describes the incidence of covid-19 infections in vaccinated individuals. It's seen among other things on the development in the number of covid-19-related hospitalizations and deaths as well as on special selected SARS-CoV-2 variants among individuals with breakthrough infection. In addition, it is presented data from the ongoing monitoring of vaccine efficacy.On SSI's website you can read more about approved vaccines against covid-19, vaccine technologies and vaccine efficacy. Daily statements about the vaccination connection can be found on SSI's vaccinationdashboard. The National Board of Health also publishes ongoing status reports on vaccination efforts, in whichman i.a. can read about the organization and vaccination connection divided into the individual target groups. On theirbwebsite you can also read more about the program for revaccination against covid-19. Vaccinations are an important and effective tool for preventing and limiting the incidence of disease.The effectiveness may vary between the different vaccines, and no vaccine is 100% effective compared to prevent infection. The effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccines is generally high, especially in terms of protectionbagainst serious illness, hospitalization and death.SSI has launched a dashboard with daily updated data on infections among unvaccinated and vaccinated persons. You can find the dashboard via this link . In addition, zip files are includedbmonitoring data on i.a. number and incidence of infections, hospitalizations and deaths byvaccination status of SSI's website, which is updated every Tuesday: Highlights- Overall, an increasing number of infections are seen after full effect of the primary vaccination course.- The number of covid-19-related admissions among vaccinated with full effect of primarily vaccination course is at the highest level since the beginning of the vaccination rollout. However the number has been relatively stable over the past 3 weeks (week 46-48).- The number of covid-19-related deaths after full effect of the primary vaccination course has been higher in the last two weeks (week 47-48) compared to earlier in the year.- The vaccine efficacy against covid-19 infection after full effect of primary vaccination course is too both mRNA vaccines decreasing over time. This decline is most pronounced among + 65-year-olds. There is high protection against covid-19 infection after full effect of revaccination.- Vaccine efficacy against covid-19-related admissions remains high for persons with full effect of the primary vaccination course.- There are over 600,000 people in the group of fully vaccinated. So far only seen few cases of infection after full effect of revaccination. The proportion of the revaccinated who have received onecovid-19 infection is thus extremely low (0.33%). This is despite the fact that the infection pressure has been high the last month.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2022 21:02:08 GMT
Definitions Infection after vaccination An infection is hereinafter defined as a positive PCR test for covid-19. One can not distinguish between one here symptomatic and an asymptomatic infection. This is different from the studies underlying the vaccines approval, measuring their protective effect on symptomatic infection, hospitalization, and death.Infection after starting vaccination The effect of a vaccine only occurs when it has activated the body's immune system sufficiently to combatthe infection. Infections among vaccinated people who have not yet contracted are also reported below expected full effect of the vaccine. These are classified as infections after initiation of vaccination. The period lasts from one person receives his first vaccination and until full effect of the primary course is achieved (see below).Infection after full effect, primarily vaccination course An infection after full effect of the primary vaccination course is defined in the following as an infection that occurs after the expected full effect of the final vaccine in a primary vaccination course should have occurred. INthe following time limits have been applied to this report:Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) 14 days after second vaccination Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) *14 days after second vaccination Nail Wax (Modern)14 days after second vaccination COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen ** 14 days after vaccination Infection after full effect, revaccination Selected target groups are now offered a revaccination. An infection after full effect of revaccination is defined as one infection occurring at least 14 days after the date of revaccination.Breakthrough infection A breakthrough infection is an infection after the expected full effect of the primary vaccination course or revaccination. Covid-19-related hospitalization A covid-19-related hospitalization is defined as a hospitalization in which the patient was hospitalized within 14 days after the sampling date of the first positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR sample. Individuals tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during an admission, is also registered as a covid-19-related admission. Admission data is based on figures from the National Patient Register. For further explanation, see the "Data Sources and Definitions" page on SSI's website .Covid-19-related deaths Defined as a covid-19-confirmed case that passed away within 30 days of being detected covid-19-infection. Covid-19 is not necessarily the underlying cause of death. Information on deaths has been retrieved from the CPR register and the Cause of Death register. Vaccine efficacy Vaccine efficacy is expressed as a percentage (%) and expresses the reduction in the risk of either covid-19 infection or hospitalization that is too vaccinated compared to unvaccinated. A vaccine efficacy of e.g. 90% oppositecovid-19 hospitalization means that in a fully vaccinated population it will be possible to prevent 90 of the 100covid-19 admissions one would see in an unvaccinated population.* The use of the covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca was suspended on 11 March 2021, and it has since been discontinued by the Danish vaccine rollout( www.sst.dk/da/Nyheder/2021/Danmark-fortsaetter-vaccineudrulning-uden-AstraZeneca-vaccinen ) .** COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen is a single dose.
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