35,000 Americans Getting Symptomatic COVID-19 per Week Despite Being Vaccinated: CDC

Vaccinated Americans are getting infected with COVID-19 every week, according to a recent estimate from a top U.S. health agency.

While the COVID-19 vaccines reduce the incidence of disease, hospitalization, and death, approximately 0.02 percent of Americans who are vaccinated against the CCP virus have still been contracting it on a weekly basis, according to the estimate.

COVID-19 cases among vaccinated Americans are known as breakthrough cases.

The CDC has come under fire this week for recommending vaccinated persons wear masks, an abrupt shift from under three months ago, without being able to point to published data to support the change.

The internal presentation, dated July 29, says breakthrough cases are expected to increase as a proportion of total cases as the number of vaccinated people grows.

The presentation also points to evidence that vaccines lower the viral load, or amount of virus, and duration of illness in the vaccinated who experienced breakthrough infections, and cites unpublished data as showing no evidence of waning immunity among the vaccinated.

Others questioned whether the evidence presented by the CDC should lead to a change in behavior among the vaccinated.

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