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and there is data that vaccinated people are the ones driving new variants.

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, CDC chief says

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Walensky told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death -- they prevent it. But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

That's why the CDC changed its guidance last week and is now recommending even vaccinated people wear masks indoors again, Walensky said.

Last week, the agency released a study that showed the Delta variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they got infected -- data that suggests vaccinated people who get a breakthrough infection could have a similar tendency to spread the virus as the unvaccinated.

"If you're going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, to somebody who can't get vaccinated, somebody who might be immunosuppressed or a little bit frail, somebody who has comorbidities that put them at high risk, I would suggest you wear a mask in public indoor settings," Walensky said.
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Coronavirus transmission among vaccinated people could raise the risk of an even more dangerous variant

The coronavirus could be "just a few mutations potentially away" from evolving into a variant that can evade existing COVID-19 vaccines, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday.

According to research published Friday in the journal Scientific Reports, vaccinated people — counterintuitively — play a key role in that risk.

The best way to stop coronavirus deaths and severe illness is to roll out vaccines quickly. However, the researchers concluded that the chance a vaccine-resistant strain will emerge is highest in a scenario that combines three conditions: First, a large portion of a population is vaccinated, but not everyone. Second, there's a lot of virus circulating. And third, no measures are in place to curb potential viral transmission from vaccinated people. Sound familiar?

Before the rise of Delta, which is now responsible for more than 80% of US coronavirus cases, that situation wasn't a concern because research suggested vaccinated people weren't likely to transmit other versions of the virus. But according to a CDC study released Friday, vaccinated people may transmit the Delta variant just as easily as the unvaccinated.

#3 #3 "And making believe that the vaccine was a trustworty shield seems to have been a serious mistake."

The vaccine offers a certain amount of protection against infection, which you can see in the statistics of the Roger Seheult video.

But it only goes so far, which means that when only half the population in the most privileged countries is vaccinated and capitalist society is declaring premature victory (as it did at the end of June), you're going to get three things:

1) New variants will proliferate in the countries that have been stiffed by the predatory "First World"'s hoarding of vaccines (and, it must be added, of medical infrastructure -- India, where Delta supposedly comes from, doesn't have much of a medical infrastructure)

2) The unvaccinated in the "First World" will spread the new variants, to a relatively small extent infecting and implicating the vaccinated

3) The new variants will spread among those who are not vaccinated through no fault of their own. Just yesterday I had a student who requested an extension on an assignment deadline because the student's 4-year-old had contracted COVID. Remember back when they were telling us that COVID wasn't much of a problem among the very young? Well they still haven't approved a vaccine for those under the age of 12.

4) Skepticism toward the vaccines will persist in the US because, most prominently, lots of people in the US simply can't afford to see a doctor. Oh yeah, and hospitals in the US will leave the uninsured to die of COVID-19 because money is more important to them than the Hippocratic Oath.

We could, you know, get rid of capitalism or at least suspend its rules for long enough to end the compound crisis (COVID-19 being one facet of said crisis among many). But capitalism uber alles, and so the crisis persists.