Breakthrough COVID: One Health Journalist’s Personal Account

Vaccines are the best weapon against COVID. However, early data shows the Delta variant may be causing a rise in breakthrough infections.

By Andrea Guthmann
A woman holding a pfizer vaccine
Nurse Eunice Lee prepares to administer an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times / Associated Press
A woman holding a pfizer vaccine
Nurse Eunice Lee prepares to administer an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times / Associated Press

Breakthrough COVID: One Health Journalist’s Personal Account

Vaccines are the best weapon against COVID. However, early data shows the Delta variant may be causing a rise in breakthrough infections.

By Andrea Guthmann
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President Joe Biden and public health officials say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. While that’s largely true, people are becoming increasingly concerned about breakthrough infections hitting those who are fully vaccinated.

Reset gets a first-hand account on breakthrough infections from a vaccinated health journalist who recovered from COVID.

GUEST: Will Stone, editor and reporter for NPR’s Science Desk