CDC Director Concerned About ‘Breakthrough’ Cases Weeks After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Email

• CDC Director Concerned About ‘Breakthrough’ Cases Weeks After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Email
  by Zachary Stieber, https://www.theepochtimes.com/
  The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several other top officials knew in early 2021 that vaccinated people were becoming infected with COVID-19, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times.
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  CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told colleagues in the Jan. 30, 2021, missive that she had spoken with Dr. Francis Collins that morning “and one of the issues we discussed was that of vaccine breakthroughs.” “Breakthrough” refers to vaccinated people becoming infected.
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  “This is clearly and [sic] important area of study and was specifically called out this week here,” Walensky said, providing a link to an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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  In the editorial, immunologist John Moore and vaccine inventor Dr. Paul Offit said there was a “growing threat” of COVID-19 variants emerging that would “escape” the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, which had been authorized in December 2020.
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  Early testing found that antibodies conferred by Moderna’s vaccine were less active against one of the new variants that had emerged, they noted. Moore and Offit called for testing of vaccinated people who were hospitalized with COVID-19, the creation of a national sequencing program to quickly identify new variants and the development of a repository of samples taken from vaccinated people.
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  Walensky said she had discussed the matter a few weeks prior with Dr. Nancy Messonnier, another top CDC official.
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