This vaccine makes it more likely to break through COVID-19

The threat of a COVID-19 breakthrough keeps us all on our guard, especially those most susceptible to disease. While all of the vaccines currently floating around in the US will provide adequate protection against the virus, there is one vaccine that offers less protection and leaves people more exposed to the disease.

Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had the highest case of COVID after vaccination. Still, it’s important to know that no vaccine can completely protect people from COVID-19.

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Statistics show that in DC 151,000 people received two doses of Pfizer, 124,700 two doses of Moderna, and 24,000 Johnson & Johnson (viaLive Science). Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients had 0.32 breakthrough COVID-19 infections compared to 0.2% and 0.13% for Pfizer and Moderna, respectively. Although there are different vaccination rates per state, they reflect the same statistics.

Still, it’s important to note that researchers have always known that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine offers less protection than the others. These results appeared in the stages of the vaccine studies.

“No vaccine is 100 percent effective at preventing disease in people who have been vaccinated. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who will still get sick, hospitalized, or die of COVID-19, ”according to the CDC. However, it does so with all types of diseases, especially one as communicable as COVID-19.

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While the COVID-19 breakthrough is scary, vaccines were never meant to be 100% effective. As the virus mutates and continues to shift into more transmissible variants, it is important for people to get vaccinated and not take the groundbreaking COVID-19 as a license to ignore vaccinations altogether. The more people vaccinated, the less likely the virus will mutate and the sooner the pandemic can really end.