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You just have to Google “Covid breakthrough cases” to find plenty of examples such as in Oregon where 168 fully vaccinated people out of 700,000 caught Covid.
In Oregon, at least 168 fully vaccinated people have had “breakthrough” Covid-19 coronavirus infections so far. Of those, 19 ended up being hospitalized, and three died, according to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). Fully vaccinated means that you are at least two weeks past getting the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which should be enough time for your immune system to build up enough protection.
I wonder if those 19 vaccinated people who were hospitalized from breakthrough COVID were perhaps much older/frailer, or had certain comorbidities, or were immunocompromised, etc. In other words, were they much more likely to have ended up in the hospital anyway, regardless of COVID? It would be interesting to know how many young (say, under 65), healthy people are developing breakthrough COVID severe enough to warrant hospitalization.