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New York Yankees' breakthrough infections demonstrate the Covid-19 vaccine works. Here's why
CNN ^ | May 21, 2021 | Keri Enriquez

Posted on 06/20/2021 3:03:46 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal

(CNN)In one week, there were nine cases of Covid-19 in fully vaccinated members of the New York Yankees organization: one player, three coaches and five team staff. The revelation has led to questions about vaccine efficacy and fears of super-strength variant strains. But experts say these cases show the vaccine is working, and testing remains a useful tool.

A Major League Baseball spokesperson confirmed to CNN Wednesday that eight of those nine cases were asymptomatic. Each of the nine were fully vaccinated -- it had been at least 14 days since their single dose of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.

Dr. Costi Sifri, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at the University of Virginia, told CNN that the news of the ballplayers is evidence that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine works.

"It's preventing serious infections in those staff and players with the Yankees," Sifri told CNN. "Those infections that occurred, the so-called breakthrough infections, importantly were for the most part mild to moderate infections."

No one in this group has ended up severely ill or in need of hospitalization. However, finding so many breakthrough cases in one spot does say something about testing.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: callingallvaxkarens; showyourhatehere; vaxxerssuck; xinn; xisnewspuppets
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1 posted on 06/20/2021 3:03:46 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: definitelynotaliberal

The fact that it is not working is proof that it is working.

Catch 22


2 posted on 06/20/2021 3:16:14 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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This writer must never have heard the expression - “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining...”


3 posted on 06/20/2021 3:18:42 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: P-Marlowe

Ridiculous propaganda.


4 posted on 06/20/2021 3:19:39 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: P-Marlowe

XiNN.


5 posted on 06/20/2021 3:20:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: definitelynotaliberal

“It’s preventing serious infections in those staff and players with the Yankees,”

I don’t think it shows that at all. You cannot logically say that hey he’s sick but it could have been worse. You have no way of knowing that. You can just as easily posit that the shots made the folks MORE susceptible to getting it. There’s no evidence for that either.
The fact that they didn’t get real sick is probably because the vast majority who get Wuhan Flu have mild symptoms anyway.


6 posted on 06/20/2021 3:21:56 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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You could also say the shots were making them shed so many spikes that it looked like they were infected.


7 posted on 06/20/2021 3:49:23 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Your analysis is incorrect. It was never expected to be more than 95% effective at eliminating the disease. It WAS expected, though, of reducing the severity of the disease in all who received it.


8 posted on 06/20/2021 3:55:05 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Actually, proof their experimental drug does affect human test subjects.

Vaccines are given BEFORE the flu or “plaque” enters a population.
To give a vaccine 12 months after the flu has infected most folks is well, stupid, and provided zero efficacy.

Now, whatever is in this experimental drug that will make some people sick, kill them, or deliver some life long ailment, is a completely reasonable outcome


9 posted on 06/20/2021 3:55:48 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Actually, proof their experimental drug does affect human test subjects.

Vaccines are given BEFORE the flu or “plaque” enters a population.
To give a vaccine 12 months after the flu has infected most folks is well, stupid, and provided zero efficacy.

Now, whatever is in this experimental drug that will make some people sick, kill them, or deliver some life long ailment, is a completely reasonable outcome


10 posted on 06/20/2021 3:55:48 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Are they using PCR testing on suspected breakthrough cases?

If so, nuff said.


11 posted on 06/20/2021 3:57:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Adding to Adder:
These “vaccines” do not stop transmission. This propaganda article doesn’t claim that. The Phase 3 trials don’t try to claim that. No “science” does.

Getting this “vaccine” doesn’t “help society”. It helps the vaxxed person have milder symptoms in the rare event they are detected as having caught covid.
12 posted on 06/20/2021 3:58:04 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: definitelynotaliberal

The jab is going to kill some people; Here’s why that’s a good thing.


13 posted on 06/20/2021 3:58:17 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: definitelynotaliberal

it will help the lying writer that the anti-American,
biowarefare-producing, royalty-driven CDC refuses
to record injuries or deaths from their murderous “vaccines”.


14 posted on 06/20/2021 3:59:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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Yes but healthy athletes in their 20s and early 30/s have a stupidly low risk from the virus itself anyway so it’s in no way proof


15 posted on 06/20/2021 4:03:32 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: definitelynotaliberal

So, before all the jabs were being done, asymptomatic cases were a serious threat that showed the need for the jabs - now the asymptomatic cases “prove the jabs work”.
Amazing how stupid and forgetful they think we are.


16 posted on 06/20/2021 4:21:57 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Idiots.


17 posted on 06/20/2021 4:23:36 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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18 posted on 06/20/2021 4:27:46 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Healthy young athletes are expected to get mild infections. That’s because they have a better functioning immune system.


19 posted on 06/20/2021 4:32:48 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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I don’t think it shows that at all. You cannot logically say that hey he’s sick but it could have been worse.

Please allow me to help you.

Think of the vaccine as a fat person drinking diet soda.

Can you imagine how much fatter they'd be if they were drinking real soda instead ?

20 posted on 06/20/2021 4:33:45 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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