![]() Yes, the vaccine is readily available now, but there are still plenty of vulnerable people out there. In fact, the CDC stopped keeping track of mild breakthrough cases back in May. But the percentage of breakthrough cases like me who are not severe but still contagious? That’s actually difficult to say because the CDC doesn’t track that information instead, it’s been using modeling to estimate viral spread. ![]() The federal government tracks breakthroughs if they result in hospitalization or death. Thankfully, all of our symptoms have been mild so far, but if my entire family caught Covid, then that seems to imply that breakthrough cases of the delta variant are more common than previously assumed. Of course, the irony that it was April Fool’s Day did not escape us. After we received our shots, one of the volunteers even told us, “Congratulations.” My mom and I talked about it on the ride home it truly felt like we were turning a corner that we as a nation were past the worst of the storm. I was shocked at how easy it was to pull up in my car, fill out a few forms and then get the vaccine, free of charge. But none of that seemed to matter that cool spring morning. Queued up in my car to get the shot, I was panicking because I was certain that I was going to be denied: I didn’t have health insurance and I still had an out-of-state driver’s license. At the time, we had to drive forty-five minutes one way to reach the closest vaccination site at an old regional airport in Jasper, Alabama. It was April 1, and I went with my mother, who was also receiving her first dose. I remember the day I received my first shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination. ![]()
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