The Truth About Breakthrough Infections

The sad death of Colin Powell should bring more needed attention to the phenomenon of breakthrough COVID infections of the fully vaccinated.

Why? Because the data undercuts the establishment argument in favor of COVID vaccines and downplaying of breakthrough infections.

The New York Times said in August that at least 80 percent of people 65 and older are vaccinated in the US. Thus, the total number of deaths for this large group resulting from breakthrough infections could be large; perhaps over 10,000.

The death rate of 2.1 percent for breakthrough infections of the vaccinated compared to 12 percent in the pre-vaccination period.

Extrapolating the data for the above six states to the entire nation results in 14,510 breakthrough deaths for 1.6 million cases and a death rate of.9%. This is lower than the 2.1 percent in the DOD study; this might be explained by many breakthrough infections happening in people younger than 65 and some under-reporting of breakthrough deaths probably because they are counted as COVID deaths.

As time goes on, more people lose protection from vaccines causing more breakthrough infections.

In terms of ineffectiveness against the delta variant, does it make sense to believe that requiring repeated booster shots of the same vaccines will produce better results? At best, they may only delay breakthrough infections.

https://noqreport.com/2021/10/21/the-truth-about-breakthrough-infections/