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Odds of a ‘breakthrough’ COVID-19
infection worsen with delta variant

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Posted By: Ribicon, 9/8/2021 1:03:19 PM

People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 seem to be getting infected with alarming frequency, including Georgia Bulldog football players and people on social media, and that is driving talk of booster shots before waning protection against the coronavirus grows into a crisis that fills hospitals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it knows of 12,908 hospitalizations or deaths among the 173 million people who had been fully vaccinated as of Aug. 30, though it hasn’t been closely tracking mild or asymptomatic instances of “breakthrough infections.” Local health departments are trying to fill that gap and say the odds are still vastly in favor of people

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Clever how they combine hospitalizations and deaths of the fully vaccinated. Through August 23, VAERS shows 13,911 deaths and 56,912 hospitalizations (total 70,823) arising from the vaccination itself, so people are 5.5 times more likely to suffer death or hospitalization from the shot itself than from the disease. How in the world do these drugs remain on the market, let alone how they're being made mandatory for many?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Chiritwo 9/8/2021 1:13:22 PM (No. 907934)
I'm really finished hearing anything more about covid. You get sick, 99.8% get over it. People die from other things besides covid. Here's hoping the college football fans showed people how to live their lives again. Enough of fauci. He's yesterdays news.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Periwinkel 9/8/2021 1:14:15 PM (No. 907936)
More Covid 19 Porn for all the liberals/leftists hiding in their houses wearing masks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Skinnydip 9/8/2021 1:30:45 PM (No. 907948)
Hmmm. 12,908 hospitalizations or deaths among 173 million fully vaccinated = 0.00746 percent. BFD
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Nimby 9/8/2021 1:38:31 PM (No. 907953)
Seriously? What the heck does 12,908 hospitalization or deaths among 173 million vaccinated mean? Are the 12+ thousand hospitalized or dead or both? Who writes an ambiguous sentence like this?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 9/8/2021 2:16:14 PM (No. 907987)
I'm with everybody above me here. This is alarmist click-bait because some editor feels that they have to keep writing about Wuhan flu. Enough is enough. Let's give it a rest and report instead on Hunter's laptops.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bogeegolf 9/8/2021 2:28:29 PM (No. 907995)
Ditto. Sick of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: PlayItAgain 9/8/2021 2:51:10 PM (No. 908008)
If the vaccines are failing so badly then doctors should start providing early treatment protocols. Or perhaps the hospitals could begin providing actual treatments. Like President Trump said. I don't want to hear anything more about covid until you secure the border.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: franq 9/8/2021 3:03:21 PM (No. 908011)
This is day 4 in the ICU for me with covid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: stablemoney 9/8/2021 3:25:23 PM (No. 908030)
These "vaccines" supplant your natural immune system, and make you forever booster shot dependent. Uh uh! I am not taking it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Surroundedbyblue 9/8/2021 4:45:36 PM (No. 908086)
“Delta”, and soon “Mu”, are excuses for either 1) the vaccine doesn’t really work, 2) the vaccine is making people sick, or 3) “squirrel”! When will there be justice?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Proud Texan 9/8/2021 5:12:36 PM (No. 908106)
Is it really a breakthrough case when it's really just the vaccine that isn't worth a clap?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: earlybird 9/8/2021 6:02:54 PM (No. 908157)
Fear porn. I only trust the Epoch Times these days.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Lawsy0 9/8/2021 7:45:42 PM (No. 908260)
Please oh please don't take our COVID Porn away. This is the best excuse we have ever had in years to push or drag our feet. Neither Smallpox nor Polio was never this convenient. Lay on our butts all day watching TV and raking in the gumment cash! SO close the churches and open up the whorehouses. Go, Joe, go!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: hope27 9/8/2021 8:32:07 PM (No. 908288)
CLOSE THE BORDER! VACCINATE THE UNVETTED AFGHANS!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: PESSIMIST 9/8/2021 9:52:46 PM (No. 908335)
I don't mean to argue with anti-vaxxers -- they have the right to do with their bodies as they please, God bless them -- but articles like this, deriding the vaccines on the basis of current performance, are preposterous. As poster #3 calculates, doubly-vaxxed Americans seem to have been made almost unbelievably SAFE from the Delta variant. Only 0.007% of them have them have been hospitalized or died from "breakthrough" infections. Let that number sink in. Many arguments can and will be made against the vaccine's speculative, unknown effects. That it offers no protection against current variants is innumeracy or lying.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: NorthernDog 9/8/2021 10:35:43 PM (No. 908361)
Our local news stations keep running to one county-funded hospital to get reports that 'the ICU is almost full'' with COVID patients and similar phrases. One night they highlighted a young women who died with the virus. One glimpse of her photograph and it was obvious she had some other serious developmental and health problems.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: DVC 9/10/2021 12:46:28 AM (No. 909560)
The latest serving of Fear Porn BS.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mod 9/21/2021 4:24:18 PM (No. 922061)
Please pray for #8 above. Still in ICU, vented since 8/9. Protocols seem more important to hospitals/staff than anything, including the patient and family.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: mod 9/21/2021 9:26:59 PM (No. 922303)
Please pray for #8 who is still in ICU. - His family
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