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Moderna’s latest analysis of its vaccine clinical trial data shows 900 people got COVID-19 after being vaccinated, consistent with 90% or more efficacy for the vaccine, company spokesperson Colleen Hussey said. Pfizer spokesperson Jerica Pitts said the company would monitor trial participants for two years after their second dose to learn more about the Pfizer vaccine’s protection against COVID-19. In its reporting, the CDC is defining a breakthrough case strictly as illness or a positive test two weeks or more after full vaccination. But tens of thousands of people who have had a first shot or are short of two...

CDC will monitor NNDSS and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for additional cases and will upload available data reported to those systems into the COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough REDCap database for your review and confirmation. 6. Ultimately, CDC will use the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) to identify vaccine breakthrough cases. Once CDC has confirmed that a state can report vaccination history data to NNDSS, CDC will identify vaccine breakthrough cases through that system. At that time, the state health department will stop reporting cases directly into the national COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough REDCap database. CDC will upload the...