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Graham says he has COVID-19 'breakthrough' infection
The Hill ^ | 08/02/2021 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 08/02/2021 12:38:03 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, even though he was fully vaccinated.

“I was just informed by the House physician I have tested positive for COVID-19 even after being vaccinated,” he said.

“I started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night and went to the doctor this morning. I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days,” he added.

Graham is the first senator known to test positive for the coronavirus in months. Nearly every senator has been vaccinated.

Graham was spotted at the Capitol on Monday and briefly spoke to reporters…

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 3; breakthrough; coronavirus; covid; graham; linda; lindagraham; provincetown; search; vaccines
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Feature? Or Bug (Breakthrough)? Seems odd that such a significant portion of America are experiencing breakthroughs. Do we see similar breakthrough smallpox? Or breakthrough Polio?
1 posted on 08/02/2021 12:38:03 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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I’m guessing that Lindsey might have a compromised immune system. That’s probably not helping him.


2 posted on 08/02/2021 12:39:16 PM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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or could be the vax waned like Israel data shows

boosters coming


3 posted on 08/02/2021 12:39:28 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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aaaaand he just has the sniffles. He will now support a total lockdown.


4 posted on 08/02/2021 12:40:37 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: Jan_Sobieski

My daughter, who is fully vaccinated, has also tested positive. Yet my wife still doesn’t understand why I refuse the vaccine.


5 posted on 08/02/2021 12:42:11 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If Liberals had a conscience, they wouldn't be Liberals.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Was he in Provincetown?


6 posted on 08/02/2021 12:42:28 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: Jan_Sobieski

They are going to say the vaccines don’t work as well as we hoped, it’s Trump’s fault he rushed them, we are working on a new, better one, should be ready in the Spring, gotta lockdown now, Christmas is canceled.


7 posted on 08/02/2021 12:43:50 PM PDT by BusterDog
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At what point are they no longer considered "break-through"?

At this point the new infections appear to be "welcomed-in" instead of "break-through"? COVID-19 is a whore.

8 posted on 08/02/2021 12:44:27 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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This "vaccine" uses mRNA instead of a weakened or dead virus to stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies.

All previous vaccines used an actual virus segment to trigger the immune response, instead of a mRNA (messenger RNA) segment to trigger the immune system.

9 posted on 08/02/2021 12:44:35 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: cdcdawg

He didn’t get an invite to the Obama throwdown, so now he’s gonna throw the “Quarantine Card”


10 posted on 08/02/2021 12:45:01 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Anybody know the data on breakthrough versus total # vaccinated?

I’m sure that little bit of info is being manipulated as we speak


11 posted on 08/02/2021 12:45:55 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Was he in Provincetown lately?


12 posted on 08/02/2021 12:47:07 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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"Seems odd that such a significant portion of America are experiencing breakthroughs."

Known breakthrough cases: 125,000

Number of people fully vaccinated: 165,000,000

Advertised effectiveness: 95%

Actual effectiveness for cases (100-(125,000 / 165,000,000 * 100)): 99.92%

So it's working several times better than advertised at this point.

"Do we see similar breakthrough smallpox? Or breakthrough Polio?"

The smallpox vaccine is 95% effective, so actually we saw more breakthrough cases. Until the vaccine wiped it off the face of the Earth. Polio requires four doses, but then gets close to 100% effectiveness, so very few breakthrough cases are observed. After all four doses. Unless you're sub-Saharan Africa and use a cheap version of inactivated polio which sometimes causes vaccine-derived polio. Then you see a relatively small number of cases (a few hundred a year if I recall correctly, in a place that used to see 75,000 children paralyzed every year before the vaccine arrived).

13 posted on 08/02/2021 12:47:43 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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It should be spread throughout Congress so they can’t pass any spending bills.


14 posted on 08/02/2021 12:49:01 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: CaptainK

MY QUESTION ALSO!! WAS HE IN P TOWN!


15 posted on 08/02/2021 12:49:43 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I had what I thought was a cold or sinus infection a few weeks ago. Maybe it was Covid? I did miss about 2 hours of work for it, went home early one afternoon for some extra sleep. But was pretty much back to normal within about a week.


16 posted on 08/02/2021 12:49:50 PM PDT by NEMDF
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The “vaccines” are working. They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu. Hysteria sufferers who get the vaccine overcome their hysteria and drop their precautions thus get the flu and help reach herd immunity. The success of the vaccinations is measured by the number of vaccinated who get the flu.

“Break through” is fictitious as the powers that be need to explain in a way that doesn’t make them look bad why the vaccinated are getting the flu, being hospitalized and dying.


17 posted on 08/02/2021 12:50:02 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: BusterDog

Then there will be some “supply line” problems or along that line, which will further delay everything, right past the mid-terms in 2022.


18 posted on 08/02/2021 12:50:36 PM PDT by NEMDF
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19 posted on 08/02/2021 12:53:00 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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Starting to look like only injected people are getting the infection.


20 posted on 08/02/2021 12:54:37 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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