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In reply to the discussion: Trader Joes will no longer require masks for fully vaccinated people!! [View all]OnDoutside
(19,998 posts)29. Eh ? What are you on about ? CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said so, even last night on TRMS.
MADDOW: In terms of breakthrough infections, people who are vaccinated who are nevertheless contracting COVID -- I know it`s a very, very small number of people, but you have -- you and the CDC have talked about the fact that there have been thousands of these cases.
Importantly, they`re less dangerous cases of COVID. They tend to be asymptomatic cases. Very, very, very, very small proportions of people who are vaccinated who still get infected, end up very sick or having to be hospitalized. They also pose less of a risk to other people in terms of shedding -- having a high viral load shedding virus, all of those important things.
But have we learned anything? With now having -- you know, tens of millions of people vaccinated in this country, hundred of millions of shots out there, have we learned enough about the differences between the vaccines? Can we yet say whether there`s more of less of a chance of a breakthrough infection with any of our three vaccines, or should we think of them all as essentially offering equivalent protection?
WALENSKY: So, we do know from the clinical trials that the vaccines did what they were supposed to do. They were supposed to prevent severe infection, hospitalizations and death, and all of them worked equally well in doing so. They were essentially 100 percent effective in preventing severe infections, hospitalizations, or death.
Do we know exactly whether one vaccine might result in more asymptomatic infections than another? That is still under study. But for the most part when we have seen these studies that have been doing screening of people, testing of people who have been vaccinated, what they`re finding is when they`re asymptomatically infected, rarely asymptomatically infected, they`re not shedding virus to others.
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-5-13-21-n1267352
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Trader Joes will no longer require masks for fully vaccinated people!! [View all]
beaglelover
May 2021
OP
There's a subtle shift now though. Vaccinated people are up to 95% protected, and don't spread.
OnDoutside
May 2021
#12
Eh ? What are you on about ? CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said so, even last night on TRMS.
OnDoutside
May 2021
#29
Your protection depends on how long ago you were vaccinated, plus variant plus
womanofthehills
May 2021
#47
Vaccinated people who become infected are as likely to infect others as unvaccinated people. n/t
Ms. Toad
May 2021
#58
Dr Fauci explained this week on how even vaccinated people can still get infected and spread it:
Rhiannon12866
May 2021
#73
He is saying nothing different to what the CDC have advised. Nothing. If you are in the January
OnDoutside
May 2021
#82
Why do people here keep pointing to the Yankees situation as if it should be concerning?
Ace Rothstein
May 2021
#111
Preemptively changing the guidelines to no mask required for the vaccinated when only 36% of the
CentralMass
May 2021
#105
I'm glad I live in NJ with mandatory mask rules. Hopefully, they'll remain in effect.
TheBlackAdder
May 2021
#24
N.J. to keep indoor mask mandates despite CDC change, Murphy says. But vaccinated people can ditch m
Klaralven
May 2021
#32
I am not ok with the swimware some out of shape people wear at the beach.
former9thward
May 2021
#85
I am not happy because I started venturing out, but now I am again going to be stuck.
LisaL
May 2021
#20
Me too. After 15 months, I finally went grocery shopping again myself and I felt safe
liberal_mama
May 2021
#50
The end game is a low enough infection rate and a high enough vaccination rate
Ms. Toad
May 2021
#64
I've said a few times that there is a contingent here who doesn't want COVID to end.
Ace Rothstein
May 2021
#99
I go regularly and find their products generally good quality and cost-effective...
brooklynite
May 2021
#122
I'm very grateful for news this week that many mandates are relaxing or going away...
VarryOn
May 2021
#42
I'm very grateful for news this week that many mandates are relaxing or going away...
VarryOn
May 2021
#43