Nearly 3% of medical workers in a new Israeli study contracted COVID-19 even though they were vaccinated, and 19% of them still had symptoms six weeks later.
Although the vaccines were never expected to be perfect, the findings raise questions about their protection and suggest that even vaccinated people could experience long-term symptoms such as such as fatigue, brain fog and shortness of breath.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, said she's not surprised that a number of health care workers would become infected after being vaccinated because they're constantly exposed to sick people. Some researchers believed vaccines would reduce viral loads, and people with lower viral loads would be less likely to have lingering symptoms. Topol said the new study brings that into question.
Thirty-nine people – 2.6% of the total – were diagnosed with the virus. One was immunosuppressed; the rest were healthy, including nurses, maintenance workers and a few doctors.
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