Last summer, Karin was infected with the corona virus, last March she received her first vaccination and May 28 the second. “I tested positive on Saturday, July 10, and I was very surprised,” she told NOS. Karin is not the only one: now the number of infections increasing rapidly again, experts say it is inevitable that more vaccinated people will become infected.
The one it happens to gets no or hardly any symptoms. While the other suffers from, for example, sore throat or severe fatigue. There are increasing indications that the virus variants currently used are more likely to lead to symptomatic infections among vaccinated persons, especially among people who have not yet been fully vaccinated.
‘Logical by-product’
Yet are breakthrough infections, as they are called in English, according to experts, essentially not surprising. “It is a logical and to be expected by-product, because vaccination does not protect 100 percent,” says epidemiologist Alma Tostmann (Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc). “While it sucks of course for the individual, it’s always better than the alternative.”
Because it has now been shown that vaccines drastically reduce the severity of a covid infection, especially after two injections, and therefore provide good protection against, for example, hospitalization.
In this article you can read the experiences of vaccinated people who nevertheless became infected.
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