Coronavirus
21,000 Vaccine Recipients Tested Positive for COVID-19 After First Dose
About 21,000 of the roughly 470,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S. in the week ending April 18 had received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, a Washington Post analysis published on Saturday found.
As the Post reported, this is not evidence that vaccines don’t work. Rather, these people contracted the virus before the vaccine could take full effect.
A study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March found the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are about 80 percent effective at preventing coronavirus infection after one dose.
