Dr. Nicole Saphier On ‘Breakthrough’ COVID Cases

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Dr. Nicole Saphier, Board Certified Medical Doctor, Senior Fox News Medical Contributor joined Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson Show to talk about breakthrough COVID-19 cases and why we have to stop reporting cases when they come from asymptomatic people who have been vaccinated or asymptomatic, people who have antibodies from a prior infection.

Dr. Saphier said,
“When it comes to sars-cov-2, the virus causing covid-19, what’s happening is you’re actually having people being swabbed. Those PCR tests, what they do is if they detect any viral particle, it amplifies that by the millions. So you may have non virus particles stuff in someone’s nose. Who has been vaccinated? Yes, maybe they have been around someone with sars-cov-2. Maybe they’ve been exposed, but because they’re vaccinated or because they’re immune from prior infection, that virus is actually not infiltrating into their system. They’re not actually infected by it. They just have the presence of the virus or virus particles in their nose. But that’s being counted as a new case. That’s not helpful moving forward. What we care about are clinically significant cases. And what that means are people who are presenting with symptoms requiring hospitalization and, of course, death. We have to stop reporting cases when they come as asymptomatic people who have been vaccinated or asymptomatic, people who have antibodies from prior infection. Those numbers are not helpful. They give us a very false representation of how we as a country are doing in our level of immunity. So moving forward, they need to hone in a bit more on who they’re testing and certainly should not be testing these asymptomatic vaccinated people, because, as you mentioned, this gives doubt as to how well the vaccines are working because they’re reporting any positive case in someone who’s been vaccinated as a breakthrough case. And that’s absolutely not the case.