Hospitalizations among adults with breakthrough cases of COVID-19 are 'extremely uncommon,' a new study from the Mayo Clinic suggests.
Researchers studied more than 100,000 people who were 18 years old or older over the course of 21 months. Of those patients, 69 were later hospitalized after a breakthrough infection of COVID-19.
For those who had previously been vaccinated and infected, the rate was 0.01 per cent, or one person out of 10,000. Researchers said the small difference in infection rates between the three groups was "statistically insignificant." Given the risks associated with becoming infected with COVID-19, Dr. Aaron Tande, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases physician and a co-author of the study, said vaccination is still the safest and most effective way to protect against serious illness.
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