Vaccines are very helpful in preventing or reducing the severity of the Covid-19 disease.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The Covid-19 vaccine has an efficacy of around 80-90 percent against Covid-19. However, like other vaccines, the Covid-19 vaccine does not have 100 percent efficacy. Therefore, some people who have been fully vaccinated can also get Covid-19.
“This doesn’t mean the vaccine isn’t working, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the vaccine. It means that not everyone who receives the vaccine has 100 percent protection,” said Kate O’Brien of the World Health Organization (WHO), as reported by the official website. WHO.
Covid-19 cases in people who have been vaccinated or breakthrough infection generally do not appear in severe degrees of severity. With vaccination, a person’s chances of contracting Covid-19 are also lower.
In case breakthrough infectionThe latest research shows that Covid-19 due to the Delta variant has a greater tendency to cause symptoms than the variant or strain Another SARS-CoV-2. A study from the University of Oxford involving 700,000 people who had been vaccinated, for example, showed that half of the participants who contracted Covid-19 showed symptoms.
In comparison, only about 10 percent of people infected with the Alpha variant show symptoms. In the midst of the dominance of the Delta variant in the UK, researchers found that there were several symptoms that appeared to occur more frequently in cases of breakthrough infection. These symptoms are known through the ZOE Covid application.
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