As many as 246 Michigan residents who were “completely vaccinated” against COVID-19 later tested positive in the fatal error, including three who have died, according to a new report.
The group, whose cases were reported between Jan. 1 and March 31, tested positive at least two weeks after receiving the last dose of inoculation, a health official told Detroit News.
“Some of these people may be excluded from this list because they continue to test positive for a recent infection before being fully vaccinated,” Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health and Human Services, said Monday.
“These cases are undergoing further review to determine if they meet other CDC criteria to determine possible progress, including the absence of a positive antigen or PCR test less than 45 days prior to the positive post-vaccination test,” he said. dir Sutfin.
“Overall, these people are likely to be asymptomatic or slightly symptomatic compared to vaccinated people,” he said, adding that hospitalization data were available for 117 of the cases, while 129 were incomplete.
“Of the 117 with hospitalization data entered, 11 were hospitalized, 103 were not hospitalized and three were reported as unknown,” Sutfin said.
The three people who died were 65 or older and two “were three weeks after the vaccination was completed,” he said.
“Although the majority of the population develops complete immunity within 14 days of the end of their vaccine series, it seems that a small proportion takes longer to mount a complete antibody response. CDC is actively working to better understand the risk characteristics of this group, ”he added.
Recently published data emerged as cases of COVID-19 in Michigan, which leads the nation in new cases per population, continue to rise and officials are trying to increase the blows.
According to the Detroit News, the state surpassed 700,000 cases on Monday.
Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said it was raising the state’s target from 50,000 shots fired a day to 100,000 a day.