{"id":62948,"date":"2021-04-30T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=62948"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:50:10","slug":"20-of-26-covid-positive-residents-in-a-kentucky-nursing-home-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated-a-month-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=62948","title":{"rendered":"20 of 26 COVID-positive residents in a Kentucky nursing home outbreak were fully vaccinated a month earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"

A CDC report blames an unvaccinated healthcare worker for an outbreak; data compares a population of four unvaccinated elderly residents to the rest of the group.<\/em><\/p>\n

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St. Walburg Monastery community St. Walburg Monastery \/ website<\/p><\/div>\n

By Celeste McGovern<\/p>\n

April 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews)<\/a> \u2013 Nearly half of the 46 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in a Kentucky nursing facility in March had been fully vaccinated against the virus more than four weeks earlier, according to a report<\/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week.<\/p>\n

Twenty of the 26 COVID-positive residents and four of 18 COVID-positive healthcare personnel had received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech two-shot coronavirus vaccine at on-site clinics January 10 and 31, a full month before the outbreak on March 1, making them \u201cbreakthrough\u201d vaccinated cases of COVID.<\/p>\n

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Two additional COVID-positive residents who had been fully vaccinated eight days before the outbreak were excluded from the CDC\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n

When the outbreak occurred, 79 of 83 nursing home residents had been fully vaccinated, including more than 90 percent who had received both Pfizer doses a month earlier. CDC experts insist the vaccine should be fully effective two weeks after<\/a> vaccination.
\nAmong staff, 61 of 116 (52.6 percent) received both shots a month before the outbreak and another five had received their second injections at a clinic in February.<\/p>\n

Data from four unvaccinated residents<\/h4>\n

No healthcare workers, vaccinated or unvaccinated, were hospitalized or died.<\/p>\n

Three residents died. One was fully vaccinated. Two were not, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n

These would have been two of only four residents of 83 in the facility who chose not to be vaccinated and there is no indication from the CDC why they declined to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n

The CDC report acknowledges that \u201cthe health status of residents who declined vaccination might have differed from those who consented to vaccination.\u201d In other words, they may have been extremely ill or frail or in palliative condition near death, although the report does not describe their condition.<\/p>\n

Based on the data of four unvaccinated individuals of unknown condition, the researchers led by Alyson Cavanaugh of the CDC\u2019s Epidemic Intelligence Service concluded that unvaccinated residents had three times higher rates of infection as those who were vaccinated residents (75 percent vs. 25.4 percent).<\/p>\n

5,800 \u2018breakthrough cases\u2019<\/h4>\n

The other 22 cases would have been counted among the 5,800 American \u201cbreakthrough\u201d<\/a> cases of coronavirus among fully vaccinated individuals reported to the CDC up until April 13, including 74 deaths.<\/p>\n

The CDC report did not identify the nursing home in the state of Kentucky where the outbreak occurred in March. In February, in an apparently separate incident, three nuns at St. Walburg convent<\/a> in Kentucky died and 28 were infected though they had recently received a first dose of coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n

Prior infection?<\/h4>\n
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\u201cIt is a good bet that most, if not all, of the sisters of St. Walburg have been naturally infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus \u2014 AND that they were infected at around the time of their first vaccination,\u201d Pennsylvania immunologist Hooman Noorchashm wrote in an open letter to the Sisters of St. Walberg after the incident, imploring them to be tested for infection before taking a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my opinion as a physician and immunologist that persons with recent or occult SARS-CoV-2 infections may be at risk of harm from indiscriminate COVID-19 vaccination \u2014 especially the elderly and frail with cardiovascular disease,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Noorchashm suggested that the sisters first have their blood tested for the presence of IgG antibodies and to perform another PCR assay for the virus immediately before any planned vaccination.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are positive for either of these tests, it is my recommendation that you delay your second shots for a minimum of 6\u20138 months,\u201d he said, though the sisters were scheduled to have their second shots in May.<\/p>\n

If blood tests revealed any nuns to have had a recent natural infection, then they would already \u201calmost certainly\u201d be immune and vaccinating those with recent or current natural infections would risk reactivating, or activating, a \u201cpotentially deadly inflammatory response in their bodies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The CDC report did not consider the possibility of the vaccination campaigns having activated a dormant infection.<\/p>\n

Symptomatic index case<\/h4>\n

The CDC report blames an unvaccinated, symptomatic healthcare worker at the facility for the outbreak and used the incident to highlight the \u201cimperative\u201d that all healthcare personnel, as well as nursing home residents, receive experimental coronavirus vaccines. The vaccines have only been given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some media followed with reports that an unvaccinated worker had set off a coronavirus outbreak, \u201ckilling 3 residents.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The CDC report did not explain how a symptomatic healthcare worker was on duty at the facility where it said personnel were screened daily for the coronavirus beginning a year earlier<\/em> in March 2020 and have undergone twice-weekly SARS-COV2 testing since November 2020. It also did not explain how that person was identified as the \u201cindex case\u201d when other vaccinated and unvaccinated workers were infected.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the overall numbers that occurred during this outbreak, vaccination was associated with a lower risk of being infected, lower risk of developing symptomatic disease, and lower risk of hospitalization and death,\u201d Melissa Brower, a public affairs specialist at the CDC, said in an e-mailed statement. \u201cIn fact, vaccination was 86.5 percent and 87.1 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in residents and healthcare personnel, respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report estimated vaccine effectiveness against coronavirus infection among residents was 66 percent and among healthcare workers, who had a larger proportion of unvaccinated individuals, was 75 percent.<\/p>\n

The researchers acknowledged that its calculation of \u201chospitalization and death outcomes might be biased\u201d because of the lack of controlling for underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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