
Even if they get breakthrough infections, vaccinated people don't get as sick with Covid-19, studies show
CNN
Even if they get a breakthrough infection, vaccinated people don't get as sick with Covid-19, two different teams of researchers reported Thursday.
Both studies show the vaccines strongly protect against severe disease and death, even months after people were first vaccinated and as the more transmissible Delta variant renewed the spread of the virus.
One large, ongoing study of 780,000 veterans shows all three vaccines being used in the US provide strong protection against death from Covid-19, even as their efficacy against mild and asymptomatic infection fell off dramatically.

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