{"id":103517,"date":"2021-04-26T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=103517"},"modified":"2021-04-26T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:10:23","slug":"what-is-breakthrough-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-breakthrough-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Breakthrough Infection&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>The union health ministry has said that the breakthrough infection rate is low for both Covaxin and Covishield vaccines.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Breakthrough infection <\/strong>is a case of illness in which a vaccinated individual becomes sick from the same disease for which the vaccine was administered.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simply, <\/strong>it occurs when vaccines fail to provide immunity against the pathogen they are designed to target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Possible Reasons for Breakthrough Infections:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s healthcare and frontline workers<\/strong> were on the priority list for vaccination during the first phase. They were always prone to more occupational exposure to the coronavirus disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The second wave of Covid-19 <\/strong>is highly transmissible, it might also have contributed to the breakthrough infection rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>India\u2019s Breakthrough Infections Data:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/approval-to-covaxin-and-covishield-vaccines-concerns-and-way-forward\/\">Covishield<\/a>: <\/strong>After the first dose two per 10,000 people get reinfected and after the second dose, three per 10,000 people get reinfected.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/approval-to-covaxin-and-covishield-vaccines-concerns-and-way-forward\/\">Covaxin<\/a>: <\/strong>After the first dose four per 10,000 people get reinfected after the number remains the same for the second dose too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This type of Infections a<\/strong>re mostly mild or asymptomatic because the individuals still have partial protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Concerns:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>According to a US study, <\/strong>people with no symptoms transmit more than half of all cases. This means that controlling this silent transmission from persons without symptoms is very important for controlling the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, it is very possible that an <strong>asymptomatic breakthrough infection<\/strong> can result in the further spread of the disease in the community.<\/li>\n<li>This happens especially because <strong>people may become careless following vaccination <\/strong>and many such infections are asymptomatic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/breakthrough-infections-emerge-new-concern\/article34403512.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0The union health ministry has said that the breakthrough infection rate is low for both Covaxin and Covishield vaccines. What is it? Breakthrough infection is a case of illness in which a vaccinated individual becomes sick from the same disease for which the vaccine was administered. Simply, it occurs when vaccines fail&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-breakthrough-infection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is &#8220;Breakthrough Infection&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[1315,1289,1472],"class_list":["post-103517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_1","tag-soc_0","tag-vaccine_related_issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704886394},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}