A CBS-17 news story reports on a new study that measures the risk of contracting COVID-19 after becoming vaccinated, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, called the study “remarkable” but still described the vaccine effort as a “race” because the virus continues to spread and new variants are appearing.
CBS-17 summarized the study: Researchers looked at more than 28,000 health-care workers in California who were fully vaccinated during the surge of cases earlier this year. Only seven of them — 0.02 percent — tested positive for the coronavirus after more than two weeks had passed since they received their second dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. Those who did have a positive test were either asymptomatic or had only mild symptoms.