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Top health expert says vaccinated people are spreading delta variant: Not testing vaccinated people may be overlooking some transmission
The Hill ^ | 07/07/2021 | Alexandra Kelley

Posted on 07/17/2021 7:58:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Story at a glance

As some states report marked upticks in COVID-19 infections while the delta variant becomes the most common strain in the U.S., public health experts are encouraging further vaccinations to help curb transmission.

Some experts, however, warn that vaccinated individuals may still be capable of contracting and transmitting COVID-19.

Speaking to Insider, Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said that not testing vaccinated people — as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends — may be overlooking some transmission.

"We actually have states where hospitalizations are going up more than cases," Murray said, adding that "we're probably missing a bunch of transmission in vaccinated individuals."

National data notes that more than 30 states continue to see rises in the number of COVID-19 infections. Experts attribute this to gaps in vaccinations and the rise of the contagious delta variant.

While vaccines are beneficial in preventing severe infections, contracting the virus and transmitting COVID-19, vaccinated individuals are never completely protected against COVID-19. Breakthrough infections are possible, and the delta infectivity rate is still very high.

"That's the scary part," said Hugh Cassiere, director of critical care services at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital, on Long Island, New York, to NBC. "Delta has such a high infectivity rate."

Other data emerging from Israel suggest that the Pfizer vaccine is less effective against infections caused by the delta variant, which may explain the uptick in U.S. infection despite widespread vaccinations.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: deltavariant; spread; vaccination
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To: jonrick46

Want to avoid Covid now? Avoid vaccinated people. Or, wear a mask when near them.


41 posted on 07/18/2021 2:52:52 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Rennes Templar

That’s right, we maskless vaxtards are giving the scared and timid a dose of natural immunity. No “jab” needed. After all, COVID is just the sniffles...right?


42 posted on 07/18/2021 3:20:29 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: Rennes Templar

Just take Ivermectin and forget the vaccines.


43 posted on 07/18/2021 4:32:02 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Yaelle

60 Minutes Mike Wallace Exposes Failed 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine Roll Out

> Re-Published on Rumble July 17, 2021

[Today, the White House would order Big Tech and the MSM not to cover the permanent terrible side effects from the jab. It would just be a full-on Soviet-like propaganda campaign telling everybody to take the vax and ignore the negative consequences.]

https://rumble.com/vjyf4d-60-minutes-mike-wallace-exposes-failed-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-roll-out.html


44 posted on 07/18/2021 4:37:23 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

The war was never meant to be won. It was meant to be continuous.


45 posted on 07/18/2021 4:48:46 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But that’s not possible, Biden and Fauxi have said it’s the unvaccinated that are getting sick.
Dont go listening to doctors actually treating patients, listen to the political people.


46 posted on 07/18/2021 5:11:25 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: phoneman08
After all, COVID is just the sniffles...right?

To be honest, I also coughed for about a week when I got it in late Jan of 2020. So it was more like a cold.

47 posted on 07/18/2021 5:18:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Speaking of the UK, how’s this for lunacy: BoJo, the guy who supposedly had CoupFlu and two CoupFlu shots is self-quarantine cuz he came into contact with someone who’s supposed to have CoupFlu.


48 posted on 07/18/2021 5:22:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Which is why the CDC stopped testing them.


49 posted on 07/18/2021 5:26:47 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SCARIANTS


50 posted on 07/18/2021 6:17:57 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: mewzilla

🙄

The guy who combs his hair with a drumstick.


51 posted on 07/18/2021 7:45:01 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

I have the antibodies because my wife and I had it before it had a name. Survived it without doctor visits or drugs. The Red cross says I have the antibodies, and the rapid antibody test.


52 posted on 07/18/2021 8:32:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More fear porn


53 posted on 07/18/2021 9:40:28 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Rennes Templar

You ain’t lyin’.

This whole time I was not afraid to walk “naked” amongst the masses but now, I actually worry.

They have signs up in the all the stores “masks not required for fully vaccinated people” and there’s lots of naked-faced folks walking around.

Are they people like me, unvaxxed, gaming the signage and enjoying adequate oxygen *or* or they super-spredder viral mutants?

This is SO bass ackwards.


54 posted on 07/18/2021 8:48:33 PM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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