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Updated 4:22 PM; Today 1:31 PM
By Aimee Green
Four people in Oregon tested positive for COVID-19 even though they’d been fully vaccinated and enough time had passed for their second doses to become fully effective, state public health officials announced Friday.
The news makes Oregon one of the first states in the nation to identify so-called “breakthrough cases” where people who were considered immune have now been sickened with mild cases of the disease. State epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger noted that the breakthrough cases weren’t “unexpected,” given that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are thought to be close to 95% effective.
By Aimee Green
Four people in Oregon tested positive for COVID-19 even though they’d been fully vaccinated and enough time had passed for their second doses to become fully effective, state public health officials announced Friday.
The news makes Oregon one of the first states in the nation to identify so-called “breakthrough cases” where people who were considered immune have now been sickened with mild cases of the disease. State epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger noted that the breakthrough cases weren’t “unexpected,” given that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are thought to be close to 95% effective.
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