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Why we shouldn t panic about the millions who missed their second vaccine dose yet Five million people in the U.S. missed their second jab, and some scientists see a glimmer of hope in that statistic. We dig into the nuances behind the number. ByMaya Wei-Haas Email This past weekend, I became a statistic. Sitting among a sea of tables at an office building-turned-vaccination center, I received my second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In just two weeks, I ll become one of more than 100 million people in the United States considered fully vaccinated. Yet not everyone who receives one of the available two-dose vaccines returns for their second shot: So far, some five million people in the U.S., roughly 8 percent of those who received a first dose, have missed their follow-up round. ....
The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some vexing dualities. It’s dangerous enough that it dispatches patients to hospitals in droves and has killed more than 1.6 million people, but mild enough that most people shrug it off. It blocks one arm of the immune system from responding as it takes hold, but lures other parts into dangerous hyperdrive. It homes in on cells high up in the airway think the nose and throat but also burrows deeper into the lungs, maximizing infectiousness without ceding how sick it can make people. “It’s sort of right in that sweet spot,” said Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease expert at Scripps Research Institute. ....