{"id":127425,"date":"2021-09-08T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/study-examines-severe-breakthrough-cases-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-09-08T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:22:26","slug":"study-examines-severe-breakthrough-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/study-examines-severe-breakthrough-cases-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Study examines severe breakthrough cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-examines-severe-breakthrough-cases-of-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Yale study provides important insights into breakthrough COVID-19 cases \u2014 instances where fully vaccinated individuals are infected by SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 and who is particularly vulnerable to serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>In a study of hospitalized patients in the Yale New Haven Health System, researchers identified 969 individuals who tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 infection during a 14-week period between March and July 2021. Of that group, 54 were fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cases are extremely rare, but they are becoming more frequent as variants emerge and more time passes since patients are vaccinated,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/profile\/hyung_chun\/\">Hyung Chun<\/a>, associate professor of medicine (cardiology) at Yale and senior author of the study published Sept. 7 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(21)00558-2\/fulltext\">Lancet Infectious Diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Yale study provides important insights into breakthrough COVID-19 cases \u2014 instances where fully vaccinated individuals are infected by SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 and who is particularly vulnerable to serious illness. In a study of hospitalized patients in the Yale New Haven Health System, researchers identified 969 individuals who tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 infection during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}