Barack Obama Has Breakthrough COVID--This Was His Only Symptom

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Barack Obama has just revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The former U.S. President took to Twitter to confirm the infection but reassured people that he was holding up okay. “I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise. Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested negative,” he said on Twitter.

Link to tweet

When Obama, who turned 60 last August, announced he had tested positive, he took the opportunity to remind people of the importance of getting fully vaccinated. “It’s a reminder to get vaccinated if you haven’t already, even as cases go down,” he said.

In the U.S., there is currently a seven-day moving average of around 34,000 new reported cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (The seven-day moving average is calculated by adding up the number of newly reported cases over a week, then dividing it by seven.) Cases have dropped significantly since even mid-January, when the seven-day moving average surpassed 800,000. More than 216 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated, which equals about 65.3% of the population, per the CDC, although only 44% of those who are fully vaccinated have gotten boosted.

As Obama has been fully vaccinated, his infection can be considered a breakthrough case of COVID-19. According to the CDC, a breakthrough infection is when a fully-vaccinated person gets COVID-19. Even though breakthrough cases are possible, most people who get COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

https://www.self.com/story/barack-obama-breakthrough-covid

[Ms. Toad]

1. That's a bunch of nonsense.

According to the CDC, a breakthrough infection is when a fully-vaccinated person gets COVID-19. Even though breakthrough cases are possible, most people who get COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

Breakthrough cases are very common as COVID mutates. They are, generally, less severe - but they are not unusual.

[lagomorph777]

5. It's a misconception to think that vaccines completely prevent infection.

They help you kick it out faster when it happens.

If you want to prevent infection, wear a mask. That will help. But some bugs will slip through, if you have to be out in the world at all. So you want to (a) minimize the quantity that enter you, and (b) kill them as quickly as possible when they do. (i.e. be vaccinated)

I think the whole concept of "breakthrough infection" is highly misleading. I think I saw a number the other day that most Americans have been infected by now. Most don't even know it. That's because symptoms are minimal or imperceptible for most vaxxed people, and also for many unvaxxed people. It depends on your own immune system, and also how heavy the exposure.

So it's not a binary infected/not infected status. It's "how infected" are you?

[Ms. Toad]

6. The last estimate I've seen is 43%. n/t

[Blues Heron]

2. I wonder who gave it to him

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Vaccines work

A mild breakthrough case shows that the vaccine worked

[lagomorph777]

7. Yes, exactly. "Breakthrough" mild infection is a good example of success.

The vaccine is not a plastic bubble. It helps you kill an infection after it gets into you. It does not magically make it never happen.

[NNadir]

4. It was pretty much the same with me.

I thought I had a bad cold, but my wife insisted I get tested. I came back positive and worked from home for a few days.

[Deep State Witch]

8. I had a scratchy throat for a week last month

Nothing much else. I thought it was either my allergies starting up or some post-nasal drip. I tested myself and came up negative, so I just figured that it was nothing. Now, I'm not so sure.