After COVID-19 forced N.C. State out of the College World Series, the university reported that some of the players who tested positive had previously been vaccinated. Currently, the CDC only tracks breakthrough cases that result in hospitalization or death and statistics show 4,115 of those cases among more than 150 million fully vaccinated people. Infectious disease experts from Duke and UNC say that’s unusual if the players were fully vaccinated in a CBS-17 news report.
David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, emphasized that if fully vaccinated people do test positive, they’re less likely to get very sick and less likely to spread the virus.
“If you cough or sneeze on me and you are dripping with COVID-19, this is not like a raincoat vaccine that’s going to prevent the virus from getting in my nose,” explained Wohl in the report. “It might get in my nose, and it might stay there for a little bit, but hopefully the vaccine will help me fight it off and make it less likely that it will hurt me or that I will shed it to other people.”
Watch or read the news report here.