Medical personnel should not be quick to dismiss post-vaccination symptoms as vaccine-related and should always test for COVID-19 if symptoms are evident, a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday stated.
Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, all of whom have been active players in the struggle to combat the spread of the virus and treat its victims in Israel.
It focuses on the occurrence of COVID-19 symptoms, and specifically, their occurrence after being vaccinated, with the purpose of preventing cases of the disease’s symptoms being mistaken for vaccine side effects. Such mistakes, the study noted, are more common than expected.
In Israel, among 4,081 vaccinated healthcare personnel who were included in the study, 22 (0.54%) developed COVID-19 one to 10 days after inoculation.
influenza-like disease, which can easily be overlooked and dismissed, especially when the country’s hospitals are dealing with an overwhelming number of patients on a daily basis.
The other nine healthcare personnel who tested positive after being vaccinated were tested because they were exposed to confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases.
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Considering the fact that vaccinating healthcare workers in Israel and in many other parts of the world is considered a priority, the study stressed the importance of detecting post-vaccination infections in this group, noting the deadly chain-reaction that can be caused by an unknown infected hospital employee.
It should be noted, however, that the authors stressed there is no question that “large-scale vaccination of risk groups and later the general population is the single most effective public health measure for mitigation of the coronavirus disease.”