Breakthrough
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Back at Christmas, my niece's husband managed to infect 12 of us with COVID. All recovered, some were more sick than others.
Subsequently, he received his vaccination series, starting in March.
I found out this morning he has had COVID since last week. He had been on a fishing trip the weekend before and one of the guys he was fishing with, came down with symptoms early last week. Mike is not sick enough to hospitalize, but not well enough to get out of the bedroom, except for his ED visit last Friday.
COVID is a crappy disease.
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Breakthroughs will increase with new variants. So far the cases have not resulted in statistical uptake in hospitalizations or deaths.
Put this in contrast with all the reports of new Covid cases where the hesitant are begging for the vaccine in the hospital and begging their friends and family to get the vaccine.
You can lead a horse to water…. And apparently it will in fact try to drink if it knows it is near death.
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I was just talking about vaccination hesitation with a pharmacist friend of mine. He doesn't think this current event down here will move the needle very much. I disagree. I've always said it takes a certain amount of dead or extremely sick people, before you get some folk's attention. I know we have some breakthrough cases - more than I'm comfortable with - but we still have a lot of unvaccinated people, especially in the rural areas.
I think the current COVID fais do-do will bump another 10-15% of the state's population into being vaccinated. Then again, I've been wrong before...
