Do COVID vaccines not reliably prevent COVID infections and transmission? — CDC's July 2021 Massachusetts data

© 2021 Peter Free

 

01 August 2021

 

 

Y'all better mask up and stay home — forever

 

The folks at CDC published the following on Friday, 30 July 2021 — my italics added to highlight the report's core finding:

 

 

By July 26, a total of 469 COVID-19 cases were identified among Massachusetts residents; dates of positive specimen collection ranged from July 6 through July 25 . . . .

 

Most cases occurred in males (85%); median age was 40 years (range = <1–76 years). Nearly one half (199; 42%) reported residence in the town in Barnstable County.

 

Overall, 346 (74%) persons with COVID-19 reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19.

 

Five were hospitalized; as of July 27, no deaths were reported.

 

One hospitalized patient (age range = 50–59 years) was not vaccinated and had multiple underlying medical conditions. Four additional, fully vaccinated patients aged 20–70 years were also hospitalized, two of whom had underlying medical conditions.

 

Initial genomic sequencing of specimens from 133 patients identified the Delta variant in 119 (89%) cases and the Delta AY.3 sublineage in one (1%) case; genomic sequencing was not successful for 13 (10%) specimens.

 

Among the 469 cases in Massachusetts residents, 346 (74%) occurred in persons who were fully vaccinated; of these, 301 (87%) were male, with a median age of 42 years.

 

Vaccine products received by persons experiencing breakthrough infections were Pfizer-BioNTech (159; 46%), Moderna (131; 38%), and Janssen (56; 16%);

 

among fully vaccinated persons in the Massachusetts general population, 56% had received Pfizer-BioNTech, 38% had received Moderna, and 7% had received Janssen vaccine products.

 

Among persons with breakthrough infection, 274 (79%) reported signs or symptoms, with the most common being cough, headache, sore throat, myalgia, and fever.

 

Among fully vaccinated symptomatic persons, the median interval from completion of ≥14 days after the final vaccine dose to symptom onset was 86 days (range = 6–178 days).

 

Among persons with breakthrough infection, four (1.2%) were hospitalized, and no deaths were reported.

 

Real-time RT-PCR Ct values in specimens from 127 fully vaccinated patients (median = 22.77) were similar to those among 84 patients who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median = 21.54) (Figure 2).

 

[T]here was no significant difference between the Ct [polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold] values of samples collected from breakthrough cases and the other cases.

 

This might mean that the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 is also similar. However, microbiological studies are required to confirm these findings.

 

© 2021 Catherine M. Brown, Johanna Vostok, Hillary Johnson, Meagan Burns, Radhika Gharpure, Samira Sami, Rebecca T. Sabo, Noemi Hall, Anne Foreman, Petra L. Schubert, Glen R. Gallagher, Timelia Fink, Lawrence C. Madoff, Stacey B. Gabriel, Bronwyn MacInnis, Daniel J. Park, Katherine J. Siddle, Vaira Harik, Deirdre Arvidson, Taylor Brock-Fisher, Molly Dunn, Amanda Kearns and A. Scott Laney, Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (30 July 2021)

 

 

Hot diggity damn?

 

Has vaccine-manufacturing Big Pharma fallen on its head and can't get up?

 

 

The moral? — COVID Pandemic Theater continues

 

The Joe 'Dementia' Biden administration will (no doubt) trot Doctor Marvelous (Anthony Fauci) back out to tell us to:

 

 

Wear our masks.

 

Avoid other humans.

 

Kowtow with diligence.

 

OBEY!

 

 

That message to be delivered, while Authority continues concealing how comparatively mildly threatening SARS-CoV-2 actually is to the overwhelming mass of healthy humanity — according to the CDC's own published data.