{"id":72083,"date":"2021-09-14T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72083"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:43:42","slug":"72083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72083","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

14 fully vaccinated residents in French nursing home develop COVID-19.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 13 (UPI) —<\/span>\u00a0Fourteen elderly residents of a French nursing home developed\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0during an outbreak at the facility, despite being fully vaccinated against the virus, a study published Monday by\u00a0JAMA Network Open<\/a>\u00a0found.The outbreak affected one in five of the fully vaccinated residents of the facility and also included two who were partially vaccinated — they had received one dose of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — and one who was not vaccinated, the data showed.Of the 17 total residents infected, eight developed severe illness, two were hospitalized and one — the person who had not been vaccinated — died.<\/p>\n

All of the cases involved the Alpha, or “U.K.,” variant, researchers said.<\/p>\n

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“The immune response to this vaccination is likely diminished in nursing home residents due to aging and [chronic conditions] that impair immune function,” study co-author Dr. Jo\u00ebl Belmin told UPI in an email.<\/p>\n

“Although some studies have shown that the antibody response to [COVID-19] vaccination is quite good, the duration of this response and the cellular immune response are poorly known in this population.,” said Belmin, a professor of cardiovascular and geriatric services at the Sorbonne in Paris.<\/p>\n

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A study<\/a>\u00a0published in April by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that nearly one in three adults age 60 and older who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 had no detectable antibodies against the virus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Antibodies are cells produced by the immune system that fight off infections.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Conversely, just over 2% of adults age 60 and younger in the study had undetectable antibodies, the data showed.<\/p>\n

In addition, research published by the Lancet in March suggests that older adults who are infected with the virus\u00a0are more likely to catch it again<\/a>\u00a0than younger adults, who remain immune following exposure for longer periods of time.<\/p>\n

For this study, Belmin and his colleagues assessed the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Paris-area nursing home with 74 residents age 80 and older.<\/p>\n

At the time of the outbreak, 70 of the 74 residents were fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, while two were partially vaccinated, meaning they had received one dose of the two-shot vaccine.<\/p>\n

Two of the nursing home residents were not vaccinated, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n

Along with the outbreak among residents, 12 of the 102 facility staff members also were infected, the data showed.<\/p>\n

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However, only one-third of the staff was fully vaccinated at the time of the outbreak, the researchers said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Of the 12 cases, nine occurred in unvaccinated staff members, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n

None of the infected staff members developed serious illness, they said.<\/p>\n

“Outbreaks can occur in nursing homes, even if residents are fully vaccinated,” Belin said.<\/p>\n

Still, “it is important that staff members, visitors and family members of residents in contact with them also be vaccinated against COVID-19,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14 fully vaccinated residents in French nursing home develop COVID-19. Sept. 13 (UPI) —\u00a0Fourteen elderly residents of a French nursing home developed\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0during an outbreak at the facility, despite being fully vaccinated against the virus, a study published Monday by\u00a0JAMA Network Open\u00a0found.The outbreak affected one in five of the fully vaccinated residents of the facility and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72084,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083\/revisions\/72084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}