'Breakthrough infections' complicate Biden's vaccine messaging

 Washington Examiner:

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White House and Pelosi aides are among those who have displayed mild COVID-19 symptoms despite being inoculated. The outbreak has been linked to the runaway Texas Democratic lawmakers, who fled to Washington, D.C., to avoid votes on Republican election bills.

Press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed this week there had been other COVID-19 breakthrough infections at the White House. They had not been disclosed because the staffers were not "commissioned officers" or personnel who report directly to Biden.

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"Not only are they rare, in most cases, they are mild in nature," he said. "The messaging is critical here because if we don’t put these breakthrough infections into context accurately, the message could easily be misconstrued by some Americans who may start to question the necessity of a vaccine.”

For Glen Nowak, director of the University of Georgia Center for Health and Risk Communication, the shots should be promoted as a means to "slow down these mutations and changes." But the former CDC spokesman warned the term "breakthrough cases" could be politicized, similar to "vaccine passport."

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As a general rule, if something in DC can be politicized, it will be.  

There best response is that over 99 % percent of hospitalizations are of people that were not vaccinated and that the breakthrough cases are mild.  Data appears to show that the mortality rate from those infected has dropped significantly. 

BTW, Biden is going to have to stop claiming that vaccinated people can't get infected.  He made that bogus claim at a recent CNN Town Hall.

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