According to Jalen Rose CP3 is vaccinated. It could be a case of breakthrough Covid if he has indeed tested positive.
https://twitter.com/jtylerconway/status/1405174092383375363
what’s the data on breakthrough? most of what i’ve seen is data showing substantially decreased hospitalizations deaths and/or symptoms
i haven’t seen how much it prevents you from getting it, anyone have reliable info?
Depends on the vaccine. It seems the J&J vaccine is less good at preventing infection than the other two (see the outbreak on the Yankees as a good case study) although it does a good job of mitigating symptoms.
If he has it and is vaccinated, it’s highly unlikely he’ll have significant symptoms, and would be able to return to team activities pretty quickly, and might not even miss a game.
It will be curious if the rest of the Suns players are also vaccinated, and if they have a cluster, like the Yankees did, of asymptomatic cases.
Just to touch on this briefly, the ONS (UK office for National Statistics) just published findings on this (excuse the insane URL):
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveytechnicalarticleanalysisofpositivityaftervaccination/june2021We don't have the J&J vaccine here in large numbers yet, which is why it isn't included.
The big takeaways:
- Only 0.5% of those sampled who had had a first dose of vaccine later tested positive for coronavirus 0.8% for those having the Pfizer vaccine and 0.3% for the AstraZeneca vaccine. After having had a second dose of vaccine, only 0.1% tested positive (with Pfizer and AstraZeneca both on 0.1%).
- The risk of a new infection after vaccination was “highest during the first 21 days after the first vaccination”. After that the risk “strongly decreased”.
- People who did get infected after a vaccination were “less likely to have symptoms and less likely to have a high viral load” than other infected people.
- The risk of testing positive after a vaccination was higher for people under 40, for people working in patient-facing healthcare roles and in care homes, for people in larger households, and for people in poorer areas.
The raw figures show the risk of infection actually going up after the first vaccination, “peaking at around 16 days, followed by a strong decrease to around one month”. But the ONS offers a few possible explanations, including:
People being infected before having their first vaccination but not realising it;
exposure to Covid-19 at vaccination centres;
change in behaviour following vaccination;
prompts to get vaccinated because of knowledge of individuals around them testing positive.