ep 21. but if you’re vaxxed and boosted, how did you get covid?
Sam had COVID! But Sam was vaccinated? How could this have possibly happened?! On this week’s episode we’ll walk through COVID mRNA vaccines and why (mild!!) infections can still occur even if you’ve been vaccinated and boosted!
Sources:
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Chaplin, D.D., Overview of the Immune Response (2010). J Allergy Clin Immunol. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923430/pdf/nihms225107.pdf
COVID-19 Vaccines are Effective (2021). Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/index.html
Puhach, O. et al., Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals infected with ancestral, Delta or Omicron SARS-CoV-2 (2022). Nature Medicine. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01816-0
Tons of more information resources on Instagram pages like: @niniandthebrain @unbiasedscipod @epidemiologistkat and @jessicamalatyrivera !! Check them out and give them a follow!
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