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I think this is a sad reminder that beliefs do not correlate with intelligence and even smartest people are not immune from doing stupid stuff.

We don't know how this person got infected or if they even work there so you can't make that conclusion.

Exactly. There are reasons why one may not be immune:

1. The vaccine failed to create immunization

2. They were not vaccinated at some young age, but always assumed they were

The article seems to suggest that this person was an anti-vaxxer as opposed to a casualty of anti-vaxxer ideology.