I think there s still ongoing work about you know how well it works in people who are immunocompromised, but I think it s an important thing to still be vaccinated because you re still getting, you know, some level of protection from that vaccination, Dr. Candice Robinson, medical director for the Chicago Department of Public Health, said in a Facebook Live Tuesday.
CDPH Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady also acknowledged cases where some immunocompromised individuals have shown lower antibody levels post-vaccination, but said the vaccine could still provide some level of protection that would benefit those people. It s not that there s a problem with someone who is immunocompromised getting vaccinated. Usually, you know, like Dr. Robinson said, you 100% should get vaccinated, but there may be in people who, you know, are immunocompromised, and especially more severely immunocompromised. you may not get as high a level of protection, Arwady said. So it s definitely been seen a
She noted that a majority of the cases were asymptomatic, but the city has seen 48 people hospitalized with COVID-19 post-vaccination and a total of five deaths. We re still looking at the cause of some of these, but I can tell you folks mostly were older, no surprise, Arwady said.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has so far reported 32 deaths due to COVID-19 or related complications in fully vaccinated individuals since Jan. 1, but further details on those cases aren t available. As of April 28, another 97 breakthrough vaccine cases - those who test positive for coronavirus at least two weeks after their final vaccine dose - had been hospitalized.
But the 75-year-old hairbrush salesman was eager to get vaccinated as travel was his career and his life. He received his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine in January and his second in early February, his family said.
By March, he had decided to have dinner at a restaurant with some friends, one of whom tested positive for coronavirus in the days following the meal.
Sporn started experiencing a fever and his doctor urged him to go to the emergency room and get tested. There, he found out he was positive for coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases among fully vaccinated people are called breakthrough cases and while they are possible, they are also rare.
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