Here's how coronavirus spread inside a government office in Florida -- and how one official says it stopped - CNN
Officials learned through contact tracing that the patient, an employee in the IT department, was infected by an unknown contact, Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes said during a virtual news conference on Wednesday.
The virus spread to four coworkers in the department, who were unvaccinated and unmasked.But another coworker who had direct contact and exposure to patient zero was not infected, because he was vaccinated, Hopes said.
That individual, a 23-year-old in the IT department, got vaccinated as soon as Florida's eligibility allowed, said Hopes, who is also an epidemiologist."That vaccine, I believe, not only saved him but it appears that because he was vaccinated and he was sort of the next individual in line in the timeline that the outbreak in IT stopped, I believe, because it ran up against a vaccinated individual," Hopes said.