6k cases of Covid from fully vaccinated people?

If a vaccine is 95% effective (and that’s an amazingly high rate), and if 86.3 million people have been fully vaccinated, then I would think we might expect around 4.3 million cases. If my math is correct.

6k out of how many doses? I think that’s the important part to want to be informed. I’m kind of surprised if they didn’t quantify that number on the show, in some way, because it’s a more important part of the equation.

Do you have a link for that? TIA

There is no such as "the vaccines" in terms of efficacy rates either. The mRNA vaccines have significantly higher efficacy rates so far but those rates were calculated against the strains available at the time. Nowadays, we're battling new variants that are becoming increasingly resistant to all vaccines currently available. We will be living in variant-specific booster shot territory for the coming years. 

Even when fully vaccinated with mRNA tech, continue to wear masks, ventilate your home, clean your hands, social distance if you're especially at risk. For others, it's a matter of calculating risks. Masks should continue to be worn when venturing outside in socially buzzing environments no matter what for the time being. The Manaus, South-African and Indian variants are causing problems even among vaccinated populations right now. And they're travelling fast.

The more people who do NOT get vaccinated the more variants will develope, which will affect ALL of us!!

I know someone. Almost a month past being fully vaccinated. I am a teacher and she was a support staff and we were having a department meeting a few days before we got sick. Me and 3 others were deemed close contacts and because we weren’t two weeks out from our last vaccine, we had to quarantine until we had a negative test. It was only 2 days but scary that you can do everything and still get COVID. We were following the rules and no one else tested positive.

Actually, this isn't how it's calculated at all (and I made the same mistake originally).  It's that you are 95% less likely to become infected, if you are exposed to the virus than if you were unvaccinated.  It's taking what is your "risk level", if you could quantify it, and then multiplying it by .05 to get your new risk level. 

For most people, this makes their risk of infection low enough that they feel comfortable engaging in riskier activities, like eating out, travel, etc.  But in a county of 330 million people, with untold number of covid encounters, the laws of large numbers start applying so the number of breakthrough cases seems like a big number, even though it degrees of magnitude lower than before.

But that's why we need to continue mitigations to drive community case numbers down, so the number of encounters drops, and not just the "risk multiplier."

this is what i keep reminding myself and this is what reassures me.  i never, for one minute, believed it would make me immune to the virus.  i just didn't want to get severe symptoms.  at least not severe enough to hospitalize me, ventilate me, or kill me.  

most of the people i've spoken to that are hesitant to get the vaccine hide behind the fact that it is not a cure for the virus.  if it doesn't cure, why take it?  well, mild symptoms is far more acceptable than a ventilator, organ failure, or death for me.    

There were only a few talked about in my state and they interviewed him. It was a 20 something college student, who immediately after getting the vaccine, booked a trip to Florida. He caught it there.

What I really want to know is if you can pass COVID along to someone else if you get it after you are fully vaccinated. (i.e. diagnosed with covid at least 2 weeks after your 2nd moderna/pfizer shot)

I am sure that is what happened. Many times people don't know where they caught it. We still HAVE to continue with the precautions. That has been said all along.

On a side note...@bergdorfblonde How is your son?

they didn’t promise you wouldn’t be hospitalized or die they said it was %90+ Effective preventing hospitalization or death, depending on which vaccine you had got the exact %. There have been deaths, just WAY fewer. According to the CDC 74 people out of 75million people fully vaccinated. Those are pretty good odds.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/infected-after-covid-vaccination-cdc-numbers-breakthrough-infections-2021-4%3famp

Do you have a link to some documentation for that?