COVID-19 breakthrough infections are now defined differently
Mild- or no-symptom cases are not counted as breakthrough infections Share Updated: 9:34 PM CDT Jul 23, 2021
Mild- or no-symptom cases are not counted as breakthrough infections Share Updated: 9:34 PM CDT Jul 23, 2021
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Show Transcript EVERYONE A COVID-19 BREAKTHROUGH IN FECTION IS NOW DEFINED AS WHEN A VACCINATED PERSON AS HOSPITALIZED OR DIES FROM THE DISEASE MILD OR NO SYMPTOM CASES ARE NOT COUNTED THE CDC MADE THE CHANGE MAY 1ST. IT SAYS TO MAXIMIZE DATA COLLECTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. THAT’S KIND OF MAKES PUBLIC HEALTH SENSE IS VACCINATISON TRYING MOSTLY TO PREVENT SYMPTOMATIC DISEASE FROM PEOPLE GETTING SICK HOSPITALIZEDR O DYING FROM THE ILLNESS THE FOLKS WHO ARE COMING IN THE HOSPITAL THAT ARE VACCINATED OR PEOPLE WE DON’T THINK RESPONDED TO THE VACCINE BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO CHMU CHRONIC ILLNESS CASES WHERE PERSON’S BODY DIDN’T RESPOND TO THE VACC
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The availability of hospital beds is running low as Delta variant cases climb.
Local hospitals are turning away transfer patients as they face a dwindling number of beds and staffing shortages.
Kansas City hospitals are filling up as COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the region.
Beds are full at the University of Kansas Health System, which has announced it will no longer accept transfer patients.
“I think we re at a tipping point, and if we don t take it seriously we could easily end up back where we were in November,” Dr. Steven Stites, KU s chief medical officer, said at the system’s daily
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