A new CDC research, according to AFP, shows that when a vaccinated person does become infected, their viral load is similar to an unvaccinated person. This comes even as Walensky stressed that so-called “breakthrough” cases among people who are vaccinated remain rare.
This has led the CDC to believe that the breakthrough infections, rare as they are, have the potential to forward transmit at the same capacity of an unvaccinated person.”
“We felt it was important for people to understand that they could pass the disease on to someone else,” she said.
Stressing that she viewed the masks as a temporary measure, Walensky reportedly said, “What we really need to do to drive down these transmissions in areas of high transmission is to get more and more people vaccinated.”
AFP also cited a recent paper in the journal Virological saying that the amount of virus found in the first tests of patients with the Delta variant was 1,000 times higher than patients in the first wave of the virus in 2020, greatly increasing its contagiousness.
In United States, those vaccinated against the novel coronavirus should go back to wearing masks indoors in high-risk places, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended.
