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by DustinEchoes 120 days ago
> An analysis found that 12% of the 4,056 measles cases confirmed in the United States between 2001 and 2022 were ‘breakthrough’ infections in vaccinated people.

I do not look forward to the screeching about the vaccine not working that will occur if cases continue to blow up.

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I'm not sure if there is an official source, but with GOogle I found that 91% of the children are vaccinated with MMR https://www.statista.com/statistics/385577/mmr-vaccination-r...

So 91% vaccinated -> 12% ill -> something something -> 12/91 = 0.13

So 8% unvaccinated -> 88% ill -> something something -> 88/8 = 11.0

So the risk of uncvacinated people is like 100 higher. I'd expect a similar analysis in Nature site.