From News Nation:
“CDC calls for nearly 2/3 of
US counties to mask-up indoors”
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention says fully vaccinated Americans who live in areas with “substantial
and high” transmission should wear masks in indoor public spaces in the wake of
rising COVID-19 cases. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said they had reviewed
new data in recent days that showed fully vaccinated individuals could spread
the delta variant more easily than previous versions of COVID-19. “This new
science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our
recommendations,” she said on a conference call with reporters.
The CDC’s website has a map that
shows counties with substantial and high transmission. That includes a combined
63.11% of counties in the U.S. All people in schools should also wear masks,
regardless of vaccination. “The vast majority of infection is happening with
unvaccinated individuals,” Walensky said. She added the concern was vaccinated
people may unknowingly introduce the disease to at-risk family or friends. She
said a vaccinated person’s risk of developing symptoms when exposed to the
delta variant is reduced 7-fold, and the risk for hospitalization is reduced
20-fold.
The announcement reverses a
decision made by the CDC just two months ago. The guidance specified that fully
vaccinated people did not have to wear masks outdoors in crowds and in most
indoor settings. The guidance still called for wearing masks in crowded indoor
settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. This
comes following the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, saying just two
weeks ago that the COVID-19 outbreak was becoming “a pandemic of the
unvaccinated.” For months COVID cases, deaths and hospitalizations were falling
steadily, but those trends began to change at the beginning of the summer as a
mutated and more transmissible version of the coronavirus, the delta variant,
began to spread widely, especially in areas with lower vaccination rates. “I
know 18 months through this pandemic not only are people tired, they’re
frustrated,” Walensky said on the call. “We have mental health challenges in
this country, we have a lot of continued sickness and death in this country.
Our health systems are in some places, being overrun for what is preventable.
And I know in the context of all of that it is not a welcomed piece of news
that masking is going to be a part of people’s lives who have already been
vaccinated.” Los Angeles County announced earlier this month it will reinstate
an indoor mask mandate to combat the surge in coronavirus cases. Chicago
recently revived its COVID-19 travel restrictions for states seeing significant
case spikes.
About 163.2 million people, or
49.1 % of U.S. adults, have been fully inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines made
by Pfizer Inc/ BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, according
to CDC data. 188.7 million people, or 56.8% million adult Americans have
received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. “Public health experts,
scientific experts, medical experts, when we when has shown them these [delta
variant] data, have universally said that this required action,” Walensky said.
“I felt that when I saw the data myself.”
^ I’ve said it before and I will
continue to say it: the science still shows that 99% of the unvaccinated are
getting sick with Covid and 97% of the unvaccinated are dying from Covid. That
means that almost 100% of the vaccinated are not getting Covid and not dying
from Covid. The vaccinated should NOT be made to wear masks or have any
restrictions placed on them simply because the unvaccinated are being careless
with their own lives. ^
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