Vaccinated people who've then caught Covid...

[IsobelEd]

.... which vaccine had you had?

I seem to know an awful lot of people who've managed to catch Covid despite two vaccinations, but then I got thinking that most of my friends / contemporaries have had the AZ vaccine because of our age (over 40, under 70).

I don't know of many people who've caught it after vaccine in the older age group (70+) but is that because they mostly had Pfizer or because they're not of working age and still able to lie a bit low?

Mate: AZ as part of trial.

I've just had it and double jabbed AZ.
Dh and ds1 both had AZ and didn't get it (lft & pcr confirmed negative).

Other family who I see daily and are also double jabbed with a mix of Pfizer and AZ all tested negative.

Useful and relevant information here-

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/covid-the-reason-cases-are-rising-among-the-double-vaccinated-its-not-because-vaccines-arent-working-164797

I had it, had my two AZ jags, got it again.

Pfizer.

I know many vaccinated people that have had it.

Ironically ... many adults I know who are not vaccinated havebt had it!!

This question is pointless as more people have had the AZ vaccine in the UK than any others so the majority of of breakthrough infections will be with AZ. You need to know the number of vaccines of each type given and the proportion of breakthrough infections to judge which is most effective . at preventing infection ( as opposed to hospitalisation and death). Which is what I assume you are trying to find out?

Anyway, we know the answer to this because scientists have measured this and the AZ one is a bit less effective at preventing infection ( though not less effective at preventing hospitalisation) than the Pfizer one .

Me, AZ.
I assumed most young people had had something else though, AZ not given to under 40s

Why does it matter? The jab was never designed to stop us from being infected.
No vaccine has the power to fully stop infection.

This is the ft's amazing journalist on covid numbers:

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch
NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news.

The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the total number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be

He shows how the number of hospitalisations per million changes when the % vaccinated does. The greater the % of vaccinated in hospital is, the lower the total number in hospital...

Exactly field