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“If you look at the polio history, we vaccinated our younger ones and we got herd immunity. So, it happened with other infections, it will happen with this infection,” Yildirim said.
Health experts say we need to have about 70% of the state fully vaccinated to reach herd immunity which will help reduce the spread of COVID. We’re only at 34% percent and weekly vaccination numbers are declining.
“So my concern is as we reopen our state and begin to resume activities, whether that’s indoors or outdoors, there are still large pockets where there are very low vaccination rates. That’s where we’re going to see outbreaks,” said Summer McGee, epidemiologist and dean of the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences.
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“Even after one dose there seems to be increasing levels of protection, but that protection is further enhanced after the second dose,” said Omer.
The data comes from a new CDC study this week that tracked nearly 4,000 US healthcare workers and first responders between doses of the M-RNA vaccines. They were 80% effective after the first dose and 90% after the second.
“It appears the vaccinations are also protecting against asymptomatic infection which is also very important,” said Dr. Manisha Juthani of the Yale School of Medicine. She says that’s because it shows the vaccine is working against unknown cases of COVID-19.