“It’s nearly unavoidable, unless you’re going to give people very frequent boosters.”Today’s Best Reader Comments Why vaccinated people are getting “breakthrough” infections: “It's just very sad and unfortunate we have to fight coronavirus and each other. There is limited evidence beyond anecdotal reports to indicate whether breakthrough infections with the Delta variant are more common or more likely to fan out to other people. has recorded about 5,500 hospitalizations and deaths in vaccinated people, but it is not tracking milder breakthrough infections. Breakthrough infections in the leagues seem to be more common with the Delta variant than with Alpha, the variant first identified in Britain, he said. “If they’re put just willy-nilly back into society, I think you’re going to have spread from vaccinated individuals,” he added.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2021 16:37 UTC