The alarming coronavirus strain is raising questions about protection even in vaccinated people. Here's what you should know.
had underlying health conditions, per the CDC data. No one died. The primary purpose of the COVID-19 vaccines is to prevent severe illness and death, and in the recent Massachusetts cluster they did exactly that.
“They don’t talk about the denominator ... and without knowing the denominator of who would have gotten sick, you can’t tell the protection the vaccine really gave you,” he added.The CDC continues to emphasize that when you’re fully vaccinated, you can resume many of the activities you did pre-COVID. But it now says it’s important to wear a mask indoors if you’re in a public setting and you’re inRight now, that’s the majority of the country. Roughly 60% of U.S.
“If everybody in a group is vaccinated, you all know each other, and nobody’s been in a high-risk setting in the last couple of weeks, I have no problem being unmasked,” Landrigan said. And visiting grandparents or other family members indoors and mask-free is probably still OK — with caveats. “I think you can do that and it would be safe,” Ratner said. Though he added that the safest way to do it would be outdoors, if possible.It can be confusing to reassess risk in various situations once again, Wolfe said, but he noted that we have learned a huge amount over the past 18 months about what works.
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