Hospitalization of 3 vaccinated COVID-19 patients ‘a bit surprising,’ says epidemiologist – CBC
But vaccines are not ‘bulletproof vests,’ says University of Ottawa associate professor Raywat Deonandan
Apr 13, 2021
An epidemiologist says it’s “a bit surprising” three people hospitalized in New Brunswick for COVID-19 had been vaccinated, including someone who had two doses before the onset of symptoms.
Raywat Deonandan, an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, says the clinical trials showed some vaccinated people still got sick, but that the vaccines “had a 100 per cent chance of keeping vaccinated people out of the hospital.”
But clinical trial numbers are always more optimistic than real-life situations, he said, noting the COVID-19 vaccines were tested on only tens of thousands of people, and now they’re being distributed to tens of millions of people globally.
So some hospitalizations were “bound to happen eventually,” said Deonandan.
