New studies show that, even as cases of COVID-19 surged in the general population, infections among vaccinated health care workers dropped significantly.

Several studies show that health care workers — the first wave of people to get vaccinated against the disease — got significant protection from the virus after getting fully immunized. And that helped to shield members of their households from infection, too.

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