Some New Jersey residents have become infected with COVID-19 even after receiving a first dose of the two-shot
Moderna or Pfizer COVID vaccine, and a tiny number have developed “breakthrough infections” more than two weeks after their second dose of the vaccine.
The total number of such cases in New Jersey is not known, but it appears to be small compared to the 2.6 million people in the state who have been fully vaccinated.
Hackensack Meridian Health has identified 126 such post-vaccine cases, 90% of them among people who had received only
the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
But 10 to 12 of the cases were among people who had completed the second dose of the vaccine at least two weeks earlier and therefore “should have been fully protected,” said Dr. David Perlin, chief scientific officer and head of the health system’s Center for Discovery and Innovation. None of the 126 developed severe illness, although a few were hospitalized, he said.
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