The term 'breakthrough infection' is sometimes misinterpreted as a sign the vaccine is not working. For the public health community and the scientists who helped create the vaccines, it signifies just the opposite: proof the vaccine is doing its job.
In most cases, a"breakthrough" means a sudden, dramatic or important discovery. With Covid-19, however, the expression has been used to describe an infection that"broke" through the protective immunity of the vaccine -- and this is sometimes misinterpreted as a sign the vaccine is not working.
For the public health community and the scientists who helped create the vaccines, however,"breakthrough infection" signifies just the opposite: proof the vaccine is doing its job, just as it should.It is confusing: How well do the vaccines really work and what does it mean if someone still becomes infected after being vaccinated? First, let's take a look at the data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was analyzed by CNN's health team.
As Emory's Del Rio pointed out, words matter."I think 'breakthrough,' while virologically and technically may be the right term, [for the general public] it may not be the right term," he said.Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, also thinks it's misleading. "I think the term is terrible because it's scaring people and making it sound as if the vaccines don't work.
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