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Originally Posted by LianneMigiano
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.
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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...
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