Vaccinated yet Covid-positive people at less health risk: CVASU study
A study has found that people who contracted coronavirus after getting vaccinated are at lower health risk.
The study was conducted from February 7 to April 13 on 200 such cases by a team of researchers at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU).
The study by CVASU found that only one infected patient died after taking the first dose of the vaccine. The person needed to be admitted to the ICU and died after six days.
According to the study, 82.5 percent of the vaccinated patients did not have to go to hospital for treatment.
Although 17.5 percent vaccinated yet infected patients -- 35 out of 200 -- were admitted to the hospital, no serious health risk was observed.
More than 88 percent of the 200 cases did not have respiratory problems and 92 percent did not need oxygen.
The study showed that most of the vaccinated people became infected 32 days -- on average -- after receiving the jabs and their average body temperature was 101 degrees.
These findings came up in the study done in Chattogram region, led by Vice Chancellor Prof Gautam Buddha Das of CVASU.
The study was performed on coronavirus-infected people who had taken the first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.
Professor Dr Sharmin Chowdhury, Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Rana, Dr Trideep Das, Dr Pranesh Dutta, Dr Sirajul Islam and Dr Tanvir Ahmad Nizami were among others in the research team.
The primary symptoms of coronavirus are fever, sneezing and cough. The most notable symptom is shortness of breath. The patients in this study showed these symptoms on a limited scale.
Studies have shown that those who had shortness of breath, did not show symptoms for over five days, on average. Their average oxygen saturation rate was 96.8 percent.
In this regard, the head of the research team, CVASU VC Prof Gautam Buddha Das, said research has shown that people get infected even after vaccination but the risk of death is reduced. Only one in 200 infected people died after taking the first dose of the vaccine. This rate is 0.5 percent.
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