The researchers found the prevalence of B.1.351 among patients who received two doses of the vaccine was about eight times higher than those who were unvaccinated.
You are not looking at the N in the denominator
I would make since that the variant is a fraction of the wild type. If the variant breakthrough there would be a “concentration” off variant in the vaccinated. It does not mean that there is more variant in terms of raw numbers because the vaccine offers some degree of protection against the variant. You have to compare apples to apples.
The vaccine doesnt somehow make you ore susceptible to the variant. You are merely seeing a higher number among a lower N.
It’s bad journalism. Not your fault, but their’s.
It is 8 times more common *in those who received the full vaccine dose AND caught it anyway*. NOT among all who had the vaccine.
Though the article reads otherwise.
Journalism...
“The researchers found the prevalence of B.1.351 among patients who received two doses of the vaccine was about eight times higher than those who were unvaccinated. “
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Please read post 40 above.