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Wall Street Journal: CDC says unvaccinated more than twice as likely to get Covid-19 again

Published Aug. 7, 2021 at 2:27 am

This picture taken on July 28, 2021 shows a health worker getting details from a resident at a Covid-19 drive-through testing clinic in Sydney as millions of residents will spend another month in lockdown citing a still-fast-growing coronavirus outbreak and stubbornly low vaccination rates.

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Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with Covid-19 than people who are fully vaccinated, a new study suggests, underscoring the importance of vaccines in containing the pandemic. The study, published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at nearly 250 patients in Kentucky who had Covid-19 in 2020 and tested positive again between May and June 2021.