that's nearly all of npr (and nyt) now, especially the covid-related news that's 50+% of npr stories. i can no longer stomach more than their 10-minute hourly news summary on the radio these days.
I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article, though. My impress was that it's a reality check on what the vaccine is capable of and what one individual's breakthrough looks like.
This is a single first-hand account, was subject to publication bias, and a relatively bad breakthrough case.
Title of the article: "I got 'Mild' Breakthrough Case".
By definition, it is not a mild case. Any reasonable definition of mildness would not include the terms "My eyeballs ache" and "103 degree fever".
The article implies that even the mild case of COVID has horrifying symptomps which it goes into great detail to painfully exemplify. This is misleading. Absolutely despicable journalism, if you ask me.