According to a new study from Tel Aviv University and Israel’s largest healthcare provider people who have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus make be more at risk from the variants of the virus than those who have not been vaccinated.
The study looked at 400 individuals who tested positive for the coronavirus despite receiving at least one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and compared the prevalence of the South African variant, B.1.351, with the same number of people who have not yet received a vaccination.
“We found a disproportionately higher rate of the South African variant among people vaccinated with a second dose, compared to the unvaccinated group,” said Adi Stern of Tel Aviv University.
“This means that the South African variant is able, to some extent, to break through the vaccine’s protection.”
Not only could the variant “breakthrough” protections offered by the Pfizer vaccine, but it uniquely affects those who have been vaccinated (around eight times higher) than those who have not received the vaccine — 5.4% to 0.7% The Washington Examiner reported.
“Based on patterns in the general population, we would have expected just one case of the South African variant, but we saw eight,” Stern told the Times of Israel. “Obviously, this result didn’t make me happy.”
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