'I haven't had anyone that's been fully vaccinated become critically ill,' one doctor said.
Download theJust over half of adults — 53 percent — have been fully vaccinated.completing the Covid-19 vaccination seriesDr. Todd Rice, director the medical intensive care unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said the hospital has admitted at least 32 patients who were only partially vaccinated, meaning they'd received one shot or hadn't had enough time after their final dose for their immune systems to develop protective antibodies.
But the overwhelming majority of sick patients in recent months — since the vaccines have become widely available — have not been vaccinated, Rice said. Breakthrough infections — meaning ones that occur in fully vaccinated individuals — are possible, though extremely rare. If they do occur, it's highly unlikely that a person will need to be hospitalized, according a study posted Friday to the preprint servercompromised immune systems"One of the ones we took care of had cancer, and another was on immunosuppressants for a rheumatologic disease," Rice said."It turns out they were all immunosuppressed," he said.
"They thought they were sick from Covid, but they weren't. And they have the mindset of, 'Oh, I don't need to get vaccinated because of that,'" Lyn-Kew said."They're gravely mistaken."
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