The increasing number of so-called vaccination breakthroughs supposedly proves that vaccination against the coronavirus is ineffective.
In recent weeks, statistics have repeatedly appeared on social media showing so-called vaccination breakthroughs. Vaccination breakthroughs are cases in which vaccinated people still become infected with a virus against which they were vaccinated.
These postings and information are also intended to show that unvaccinated people do not become infected at an excessive rate compared to vaccinated people. But is this information correct or has it simply been distorted or misrepresented? Let's look at a post like that too. There we read:
According to the current report from the health authority AGES, the number of vaccination breakthroughs in Austria is increasing massively. The black bars show the vaccination breakthroughs since the start of the vaccination campaign from the beginning of February to August 22nd. The red bars indicate how many double-vaccinated people fell ill with Covid with acute symptoms from August 22nd - i.e. in the last four weeks. […]
About vaccination breakthroughs and vaccination effectiveness
Vaccinations are not ineffective! This is a statement that can be made quite clearly. Accordingly, vaccination breakthroughs do not confirm ineffectiveness. Vaccination breakthroughs are nothing unusual, they have always existed. This has nothing to do with the coronavirus. There have been repeated vaccination breakthroughs with the measles vaccination, the whooping cough vaccination and the hepatitis vaccination (of course also all other vaccinations). But the difference is that with these breakthroughs the disease is not as intense and fatal. And of course breakthroughs are rarer.
The fact checkers from the APA and the dpa have also published fact checks on the topic of vaccination breakthroughs and effectiveness. Both press agencies come to the conclusion that vaccination breakthroughs do not prove that the vaccination has an inadequate effect. On the contrary, it is even logical that, statistically speaking, the absolute number of vaccination breakthroughs must increase the more people are vaccinated in absolute terms. Nevertheless, it turns out that unvaccinated people are the least protected and the proportion of unvaccinated people who can become infected is many times higher than among vaccinated people. In the dpa fact check we read:
The data does not show that the corona vaccination has an insufficient effect. As the proportion of the vaccinated population increases, the number of vaccination breakthroughs also increases statistically.
In its fact check, the APA also specifies the group that is severely affected by the breakthroughs:
Almost all patients with vaccination breakthroughs are immunosuppressed, very old, have cancer or an autoimmune disease. In Israel, the effectiveness of the vaccination boosters is now evident. Unvaccinated people are least protected. What is true is that, according to studies, vaccination protection decreases somewhat after a few months, especially in older people.
It is therefore a nonsensical statement to use vaccination breakthroughs as an argument against vaccination. For further explanations, we refer you to the respective fact checks from the press agencies:
- APA: Covid vaccination effectiveness good despite hospitalizations
- dpa: Tyrolean clinics: Vaccination prevents severe disease
- Mimikama: Refuse vaccination?
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