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Breakthrough COVID-19 cases are rare — and most infections are pretty mild.
The COVID-19 vaccines have been rightly celebrated for driving cases and hospitalizations down across the United States, but no vaccine on the planet offers absolutely perfect protection.
As of late April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there had been around 10,000 “breakthrough” cases among more than 100 million Americans who had been fully vaccinated at that time. (For those curious, that equates to less than 0.01% of people who got vaccinated.)
Because those infections have been so rare, however, there is a fair amount experts are still learning about the small number of cases that do happen. And one of the biggest questions right now is if you do experience a breakthrough case, is there a chance you could have long-haul COVID-19?