COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30, 2021

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Birhane, Meseret ; Bressler, Sara ; Chang, Gregory ; Clark, Thomas ; Dorough, Layne ; Fischer, Marc ; Watkins, Louise Francois ; Goldstein, Jason M. ; Kugeler, Kiersten ; Langley, Gayle ; Lecy, Kristin ; Martin, Stacey ; Medalla, Felicita ; Mitruka, Kiren ; Nolen, Leisha ; Sadigh, Katrin ; Spratling, Robin ; Thompson, Gail ; Trujillo, Alma
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigations Team
• Description:
  COVID-19 vaccines are a critical tool for controlling the ongoing global pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorizations for three COVID-19 vaccines for use in the United States* In large, randomized-controlled trials, each vaccine was found to be safe and efficacious in preventing symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (1-3). Despite the high level of vaccine efficacy, a small percentage of fully vaccinated persons (i.e. received all recommended doses of an FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine) will develop symptomatic or asymptomatic infections with SARS-CoV-2, the Virus that causes COVID-19 (2-8).
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over CoronaVirus Infections COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccines Disease Notification Female Humans Male Middle Aged Treatment Failure

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 70(21):792-793
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  34043615
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8158893
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  21
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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