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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,889 posts)
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 08:25 PM Jul 2021

Dr. Fauci on CDC mask guidelines: 'We are dealing with a different virus now'

"We are dealing with a different virus now."

That's what Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, told NPR Tuesday about the Covid delta variant.

"This is not the original virus that we were dealing with. This has different capabilities much more efficient in transmitting from person to person," he said, explaining why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's changed its mask guidelines.

Fauci said the CDC reversed its mask guidance on Tuesday — recommending that fully vaccinated people go back to wearing masks indoors in places where there are high transmission rates — because delta is now the dominant strain in the U.S. In May, when the CDC announced that fully vaccinated people could ditch their masks, the more transmissible delta variant only represented about 1-2% of infections in the U.S.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/dr-fauci-on-cdc-mask-guidelines-we-are-dealing-with-a-different-virus-now/ar-AAMFmfi

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Dr. Fauci on CDC mask guidelines: 'We are dealing with a different virus now' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
Should have never ditched them for anybody. It Rewarded the freaks. boston bean Jul 2021 #1
Couldn't say it any better. Bluethroughu Jul 2021 #3
Mask up, we got this. Bluethroughu Jul 2021 #2
people who actually care about others got this Skittles Jul 2021 #4
You are definitely right about that. Bluethroughu Jul 2021 #5

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
1. Should have never ditched them for anybody. It Rewarded the freaks.
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 08:29 PM
Jul 2021

And put us all at risk cause smart people couldn’t foresee a variant that was already ravaging India and that unvaxed anti mask holes would abide by an honor system.

Bluethroughu

(5,149 posts)
5. You are definitely right about that.
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 10:51 PM
Jul 2021

A friend of my sisters got Covid a couple weeks ago, was feeling so sick called doctor twice, then went to a concert that weekend, and on a plane domestically the following week to party at a college! Everyone traveling with her got Covid while there, got back on the flight and came home the other day....these were anti vax Covid hoaxers...they are reckless psychos.

I barely go anywhere knowing these jerks live in my area, and I won't go into a public building, because they are not the only ones who could careless about others.

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