The question arises again and again about the risk of infection from vaccinated people.
New publications come to a clear result.
Who is vaccinated against Corona, cannot get seriously ill with Corona? Unfortunately it's not that easy. Vaccination offers protection against severe disease, but vaccination breakthroughs are possible. People whose immune system does not produce the desired number of antibodies after vaccination due to their age and / or an immune deficiency are particularly at risk.
Corona vaccination protection for these groups of people decreases accordingly
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However, breakthroughs in vaccination, i.e. falling ill despite being vaccinated, are not the rule.
As the WDR quotes the Robert Koch Institute as the leading biomedical research facility of the German federal government,
breakthroughs in vaccination were registered in 0.31 percent of the around 56 million completely vaccinated
(as of November 17, 21).
Current figures also show that the corona vaccination protects against the course of serious illness.
A survey conducted by the MDR health magazine “Hauptsache Gesund” revealed that
two thirds of the Covid patients treated as inpatients in central Germany are not vaccinated
.
According to the MDR, the ten hospitals with the highest number of beds in Central Germany were surveyed, including the Halle University Hospital, the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the Chemnitz Clinic.
297 patients were treated in the clinics on November 4th for a corona infection - 209 of them were vaccinated and 88 were unvaccinated.
According to the ZDFheute portal, Lothar Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institute, summarizes: "People who have been vaccinated are significantly less likely to develop symptoms of Covid-19 and they also have to go to hospital significantly less often."
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Unvaccinated people transmit coronaviruses longer than vaccinated people
But are those who have been vaccinated less contagious than those who have not been vaccinated? Research groups around the world are currently investigating this question. Various studies attest vaccinated people a lower infection rate than unvaccinated people. Dutch researchers came to the conclusion that those who were fully vaccinated had a high viral load for around three days. According to the researchers, this goes hand in hand with an increased risk of infection for fellow human beings.
In the case of unvaccinated people, this period is even up to seven days
.
As Geo.de reported, the scientists collected positive PCR smears from vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare workers as part of their study.
The evaluation showed that the virus particles from vaccinated persons were less often infectious than those from unvaccinated persons.
As the knowledge portal further informs, a study from Singapore also comes to the result
that the viral load in vaccinated people falls faster than in unvaccinated people
because the immune system can deactivate the virus more quickly through the vaccination.
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