A group of seven Germans were infected with the Omicron variant in early December even after having been fully vaccinated and getting the off-lauded booster shots from Moderna, AstraZeneca and BioNTech.
“We’re seeing a lot of breakthrough infections right now,” said Wolfgang Preiser, a member of the research consortium that discovered the variant. “What we did not know is that even a booster vaccination with Biontech / Pfizer does not prevent this.
These infections are the first breakthrough infections reported with the Omicron variant in people who have already received their booster vaccinations,” reported German paper Der Tagesspiegel.
“Of course you shouldn’t misunderstand that vaccination doesn’t help. On the contrary: It only shows that even the best possible vaccination is obviously not enough to prevent infection – which we already suspected,” Preiser insisted.
Der Tagesspiegel reports that “the booster vaccinations were given to the subjects between five and ...