Woman who had breakthrough COVID-19 case believes vaccine saved her life

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – COVID-19 hospitalizations person much than doubled since past Labor Day.

While breakthrough COVID-19 infections tin happen, a caller survey revealed unvaccinated radical are 29 times much apt to extremity up hospitalized from COVID-19 than vaccinated radical

A breakthrough lawsuit is erstwhile a vaccinated idiosyncratic gets COVID-19.

News4Jax spoke with a pistillate who had a breakthrough case, and she believes the COVID-19 vaccine is the lone crushed she’s not different statistic.

From the opening of the pandemic, Billie Garrett knew taking the microorganism earnestly was a substance of beingness oregon death.

“I person fibromyalgia, and my immune strategy is haywire. Anything I drawback takes everlastingly to heal due to the fact that of the fibro,” Garrett said.

That’s wherefore she didn’t person a 2nd thought astir getting the COVID-19 vaccine successful January. But, successful July, she got COVID-19.

“I can’t archer you however galore times I woke up gasping for air,” she recalled.

While Garrett’s symptoms were severe, she was ne'er hospitalized. She believes that’s due to the fact that she was vaccinated.

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“I americium convinced that I would person died if I had not gotten it due to the fact that I was truthful severely sick with the vaccine. I shudder to deliberation wherever I would beryllium if I didn’t get it,” Garrett said. “I perfectly bash not deliberation I would beryllium live contiguous without it.”

Even though Garrett got sick, Duval County Medical Society Foundation President Dr. Sunil Joshi said the vaccine did its job.

“We person ne'er said the vaccine volition 100% forestall you from having the virus. The full crushed we person vaccines successful the archetypal spot is to support radical from getting severely that they extremity up successful the infirmary oregon adjacent passing distant from the virus,” Joshi said.

Recent studies person shown the efficacy of the vaccines does little implicit clip — precisely however overmuch is inactive chartless since that information is being collected successful real-time. But Dr. Chirag Patel with UF Health Jacksonville said extortion remains high.

“It is harmless to accidental that a bulk of radical volition person precise bully extortion for astatine slightest six months,” Patel said. “With immoderate vaccine, you’re going to person breakthrough cases. No vaccine successful the past of mankind is 100% effective. The 3 vaccines that we person are the astir effectual successful the past of mankind, but determination is inactive a tiny percent of individuals who are going to get sick — and an adjacent smaller magnitude who are going to necessitate hospitalization.”

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lone recorded breakthrough cases until the extremity of April. At that time, determination had been much than 10,000.

The CDC said it volition nary longer way cases and alternatively absorption connected the fig of breakthrough cases that person led to hospitalization oregon death.

As of past month, according to the CDC, much than 173 cardinal Americans have been vaccinated, and determination were 12,908 breakthrough cases successful which a idiosyncratic was hospitalized oregon died. That’s little than 1%.

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