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In the United States, so-called breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated —…are fast becoming the status quo.
The highly contagious Omicron stands to make the notion of a surprise breakthrough infection “completely irrelevant”. …
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Every wave of the pandemic has posed its challenges, but Omicron offers the vaccinated a preview of one of the more frustrating aspects of endemicity: regular breakthroughs.
(NYT)