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A fully-vaccinated Houston wedding led to 6 Delta variant cases. Did certain vaccines save lives?
Gwendolyn Wu, Staff writer
July 9, 2021 Updated: July 9, 2021 5:09 p.m.
A couple hosting an outdoor wedding outside Houston in April required full COVID-19 vaccination from all of their guests. It was an open-air event, with 92 people in attendance.
Their happy day turned into a nightmare, though, after one attendee died, two others were hospitalized with severe illness and three others tested positive for the coronavirus. In a pre-print study of COVID-19 Delta variant breakthrough infections among guests who had received the vaccine, Baylor College of Medicine researchers say the newly dominant strain of the virus may pose the highest risk of infection of all the variants spreading worldwide.
The person who died was vaccinated with Covaxin, a shot not authorized for emergency use in the U.S. One of the hospital patients received Covaxin, while another received Pfizer. Both Covaxin recipients had traveled from India for the wedding...