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Old 05-14-2021, 10:33 AM
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By The Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres tested positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated and having previously contracted the coronavirus during the offseason.

Torres is among eight so-called breakthrough positives among the Yankees — people who tested positive despite being fully vaccinated.
A statistical anomaly for sure!

Of the more than 95 million people in the United States who were fully vaccinated, only 9,245 — or 0.01 percent — have been infected with the coronavirus.

Just over a quarter of those people never had symptoms;

132 people, or 1 percent of the breakthrough infections, died.

Twenty of those deaths were in asymptomatic people or probably not related to COVID-19.

So, 132 out of nearly 100 Million...

Here’s what breakthrough infections reveal about COVID-19 vaccines | Science News