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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
And I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night----what's your point? Is it that the vaccine is not 100% effective? Yes, that would be correct. Was she sick or just had a positive test?
Three of my neighbors, fully vaccinated were going on a trip, all 3 tested positive. They went to a different testing center and 2 tested neg, the other tested negative the next day. Given the CDC assertion that the breakthrough rate is 0.007%, 3/3 testing positive is a nearly impossible statistical anomaly, so I tend to think something is going on with the test in the vaccinated
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Since May 1, before the delta variant took hold, the CDC is focusing on
breakthrough cases where the patient is hospitalized or dies. They are not asking for data from the states on positive PCR tests in symptom free or well persons. They have not, as far as I can find, made any comment or published any data on asymptomatic positive tests after full vaccination for the period after May 1. The CDC reported 10,262 positive test out of 101 million vaccinated persons [0.01%] reported up to May 1. They advise that this certainly is an undercount of breakthrough cases due to non-testing and under-reporting. Recent news items as well as your personal experience suggest that full vaccination is amazingly effective in preventing illness but it does not prevent subclinical infection. No vaccine prevents subclinical infection so this is not a surprise.
For the non-medical readers... When a virus enters your body either your immune system detects and destroys it, or your immune system does not detect or destroy. In the first situation you likely never have any symptoms but you WILL test positive during the event and for a period afterward as viral particles are present in your nose and throat.