Current Events > 142 Houstonians tested positive for COVID 14 days after being ful

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https://abc13.com/10508472/

Scared bro?

"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you think receiving a vaccine means you're completely immune from getting COVID-19, Houston health experts want you to review some of the latest data.

According to the Houston Health Department, more than 100 residents in the city have reportedly tested positive after they say they were fully vaccinated.
"That is not unexpected," said Dr. David Persse, who is the Chief Medical Officer for the City of Houston. "The vaccine is not 100 percent effective."

Since January, 142 Houstonians who either received both doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines or a single shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine still contracted the virus. The report also rules out those who were said to have contracted the virus 45 days before their second scheduled shot date. Additional data suggests this is a super rare occurrence.

The Houston Health Department is reporting roughly 2.46 positive cases out of every 10,000 fully-vaccinated people. It is unclear if those who tested positive contracted the original strand of COVID-19 or one of the several newer variants.

"There will be a few rare individuals infected with COVID-19 after having been vaccinated," said Dr. Wesley Long of Houston Methodist Hospital. "If you've been vaccinated and are still infected, those infections by-and-large are incredibly mild compared to COVID-19 infection in unvaccinated individuals."
Additionally, Dr. Persse says vaccinated individuals should continue to wear masks in public, as well as practice social distancing, because there's still a small chance vaccinated individuals can spread COVID-19 if they've been infected by the virus.

"I've got four masks on my desk," said Persse, who is fully vaccinated and still undergoes regular COVID-19 tests. "I've made the commitment to my family that I'm not going to bring it home to them and get them sick."

Persse and Long both say continuing those safety measures, in addition to vaccinating large portions of the population, are what we need to return to some version of normalcy in the future.

"As we go through the summer and into the fall, as we get vaccines approved for teenagers and children, I think that will help," said Long. "Going through the rest of this year I think we'll start to see things get back to whatever normal looks like for us in 2021."

The city and county maintain separate COVID-19 numbers. While the city has 142 positive cases, according to the Harris County Health Department, as of April 12, 96 out of 106,000+ residents who were fully vaccinated through HCPH vaccination sites have tested positive for COVID-19."

*fully vacinated

Why is this news

Everyone knows J+J is like 60% effective and the others are 90%+, not 100%

Cocytus posted...

If you think receiving a vaccine means you're completely immune from getting COVID-19

Hopefully nobody thinks this. But I know they do.

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GregShmedley posted...

This is why we do not need to open anywhere. Sure, this is expected, but these numbers will increase the more we open back up.

I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills living in this world.

so never open because the rates are not 100%?

So I guess we stay inside forever then right?

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tripleh213 posted...

So I guess we stay inside forever then right?

Uh, yeah? Why is this so hard for people to grasp? Put on your big boy pants and stay the fuck home.

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didnt we go through this already



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This is why we begged people to get it earlier. Now we get to deal with variants popping up since we didnt stamp it out in time.

And for those who say see this is why Im not getting the vaccine this is on you.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Uh, yeah? Why is this so hard for people to grasp? Put on your big boy pants and stay the fuck home.

Because that's not even remotely realistically possible for many people? People have to make money and not everybody is, or has ever been, afforded a job that allows them to work from home.

tripleh213 posted...

So I guess we stay inside forever then right?

If everyone does it, it would be two months max. But this way yeah forever is pretty close.

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Anyone who isnt a complete fucking moron knows vaccines arent 100% effective

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Cocytus posted...

Scared bro?

No, because I know how vaccines work.

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divot1338 posted...

This is why we begged people to get it earlier.

there wasn't any openings to get it though. i would've gotten it far sooner myself.
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Is TC an anti vaxxer I need to tag?

This is surprisingly to anyone remotely informed on this. None of the vaccines guarantee 100% immunity, and those who still get it after being fully vaccinated have a far better chance of not dying.

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Njolk posted...

Why is this news

Because hysteria generates clicks, and there's no such thing as ethics in journalism now-a-days.

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Njolk posted...

Why is this news

Everyone knows J+J is like 60% effective and the others are 90%+, not 100%

Effectiveness and efficacy are two different things. While it's true that few people who got the vaccine had contracted covid, none of them were hospitalized or even severely ill

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Covid 14

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Master Kazuya posted...

Effectiveness and efficacy are two different things. While it's true that few people who got the vaccine had contracted covid, none of them were hospitalized or even severely ill

Yeah, this is key.

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No, I'm not scared. I know what vaccines actually do. Fuck media for making people think vaccines are a fucking magical cure-all.

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GregShmedley posted...

Stay inside FOR-EV-ER.

Okay. maybe that apply's to the folks in michigan when they die from the virus. they'll be inside the ashes forever :(.
fucking trumpers.... they got freedom at a massive cost (killing grandparents etc).
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divot1338 posted...

This is why we begged people to get it earlier. Now we get to deal with variants popping up since we didnt stamp it out in time.

And for those who say see this is why Im not getting the vaccine this is on you.

we were in a race against time. We control this shit or variants pop up and them we're doomed.

All we had to do was, stay. the fuck. inside. But people did not. They chose this. Now we are doomed.

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Cocytus posted...

"There will be a few rare individuals infected with COVID-19 after having been vaccinated," said Dr. Wesley Long of Houston Methodist Hospital. "If you've been vaccinated and are still infected, those infections by-and-large are incredibly mild compared to COVID-19 infection in unvaccinated individuals."

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tripleh213 posted...

So I guess we stay inside forever then right?

https://i.imgur.com/nnkcHGK.gifv

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Cocytus posted...

"If you've been vaccinated and are still infected, those infections by-and-large are incredibly mild compared to COVID-19 infection in unvaccinated individuals."

The most important part tbh

were trying to prevent death with these vaccines, not the sniffles

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Were_Wyrm posted...

https://i.imgur.com/nnkcHGK.gifv

The same thing popped into my head when I saw that post.

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that's better than expected and honestly fantastic. Plus the vaccinated will have less serious symptoms and spread the virus less.

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Positive, yes

Will be hospitalized or die, no

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That's why it's important to keep up the distancing and mask wearing. That plus the vaccine will immensely reduce the rate.

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The vaccines are made to make sure when/if you get covid, it won't kill you or make you have severe complications. It was never it's intention on being 100% never having it.

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MegaTech posted...

The vaccines are made to make sure when/if you get covid, it won't kill you or make you have severe complications. It was never it's intention on being 100% never having it.

In this way, we can compare the flu vaccines to the covid-19 vaccine

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Cocytus posted...

The Houston Health Department is reporting roughly 2.46 positive cases out of every 10,000 fully-vaccinated people.

So in other words less than half of 1%. Lol. Okay.

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I am back to staying in my house. and I jsut left the house for the first time last week.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Uh, yeah? Why is this so hard for people to grasp? Put on your big boy pants and stay the fuck home.

Are these rates even going to be different than the people who die of the flu every year?

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