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David Shane's avatar

Perhaps worth saying too that, like masking, this is something that was especially evident first to people actually working in hospitals and the like. If anyone was being careful to mask it was them and yet, very early in the pandemic, we still saw a substantial number of hospital workers catching COVID-19, likely on the job... which affected our fervor for masking not all.

Similarly, since they were among the first people vaccinated, they were also among the first people to realize "oh, we're catching COVID anyway". Actually happened to a doctor friend of ours and his family pretty early on and someone told him "oh, so you were one of those rare breakthrough cases I hear about on the news?". They aren't especially uncommon, he said.

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Brooke's avatar

CDC stopped reporting breakthrough cases in May for a reason. Downhill fall in slow motion, with media protection.

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