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Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers
Author(s) -
Moriah Bergwerk,
Tal Gonen,
Yaniv Lustig,
Sharon Amit,
Marc Lipsitch,
Carmit Cohen,
Michal Mandelboim,
E G Levin,
Carmit Rubin,
Victoria Indenbaum,
Ilana Tal,
Malka Zavitan,
Neta S. Zuckerman,
Adina BarChaim,
Yitshak Kreiss,
Gili RegevYochay
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa2109072
Subject(s) - covid-19 , virology , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Despite the high efficacy of the BNT162b2 messenger RNA vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), rare breakthrough infections have been reported, including infections among health care workers. Data are needed to characterize these infections and define correlates of breakthrough and infectivity.

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