It may look like the Delta variant is making people sicker, but more than 90% of people showing up for treatment are unvaccinated, according to the CDC and hospital officials.
So while people may be more likely to become infected in the first place with Delta if they are unvaccinated, there's no hard data yet showing that Delta causes more serious disease.The CDC cites three older studies, from Canada, Singapore and Scotland, indicating people infected with Delta end up in the hospital more often.More than 80% of Americans over 65 are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
No vaccine is 100% effective, and many thousands of people who are fully vaccinated have nonetheless become infected -- something known as a breakthrough case.The CDC released a startling study Friday looking at an outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts where 74% of people who got infected had been fully vaccinated -- and four of them ended up in the hospital.The outbreak involved 469 people who caught Covid earlier this month."Testing identified the Delta variant in 90% of specimens from 133 patients," the researchers from the CDC and local health departments wrote in the CDC's weekly report.It's the first big study to contradict earlier evidence that vaccinated people are almost completely safe from serious disease, even involving Delta and other variants."Data suggest lower effectiveness against confirmed infection and symptomatic disease caused by the Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants compared with the ancestral strain and Alpha variant.While the CDC originally told people that the vaccinated are less likely to infect others, CDC's Walensky said this week the Delta variant may be different.Tests on the infected people showed the fully vaccinated had as much virus in their bodies as unvaccinated people did."High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.Because of this and other evidence, the CDC now says even vaccinated people should wear masks in areas of sustained or high transmission.They found viral loads of people infected with Delta were 1,000 times higher than people infected at the very beginning of the pandemic.Celine Gounder created a stir when she said people could be infected by Delta in just one second of exposure, compared to 15 minutes at the beginning of the pandemic.
It doesn't have some of the mutations that made other variants more transmissible, including one called N501Y that characterizes the Alpha or B.1.1.7 variant; the Beta or B.1.351 variant; and the Gamma or P1 variant."If we have more and more people vaccinated, we will win in this race," Walensky said this week.
Are you sure?According to the liberal propagandists there’s vaccinated people in hospitals all over the country.
you should try a little research, the vaccine hasnt stopped anything, plenty of idiots getting vaccinated are getting sick.Now I have been fully vaccinated and now they want me to mask up to protect whom