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CA records more than 1,400 cases of COVID-19 in vaccinated individuals
Lisi Ludwig/Senior Staff
About 1,400 breakthrough cases or cases where anyone has tested positive for COVID-19 more than 14 days after completing their respective vaccination series have been recorded by fully vaccinated individuals in California. These cases are likely due to the vaccine not having obtained a sufficient immune response in the vaccinated individual.
California has recorded about 1,400 breakthrough cases of COVID-19 in fully vaccinated people from Jan. 1 through April 21.
Breakthrough cases are defined as anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 more than 14 days after completing their vaccination series. According to the California Department of Public Health, breakthrough cases constitute about 0.1% of the approximately 1.4 million COVID-19 cases in that time frame.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, UC Berkeley researchers from different areas of expertise rose in legions to respond to the crisis by studying the coronavirus and its impacts.
Researchers across campus designed and executed new studies with unprecedented speed and urgency, and their work throughout the past year has made significant contributions to understanding the pandemic. While campus’s Innovative Genomics Institute began its diagnostic testing program, other researchers looked into mentalhealtheffects and increases in food insecurity, among other topics.
Sarah Stanley, campus infectious diseases and vaccinology associate professor, said her lab one of three labs in the campus biosafety level 3 facility has been involved in “a little bit of everything.” Due to the risks involved with researching COVID-19, the live coronavirus must be studied in labs like Stanley’s, which have increased precautionary measures.