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CDC: Vaccinated are vulnerable.
Cape Cod Times ^ | 7/31/2021 | Jeannette Hinkle

Posted on 07/31/2021 11:08:48 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

Study of area cases says variant leads to ‘increased risk of transmission’

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study regarding the Provincetown COVID-19 outbreak published Friday provides new evidence that vaccinated people are vulnerable to the disease’s highly contagious delta variant.

A key finding in the report is that almost three-quarters of people infected in the Provincetown outbreak were fully vaccinated.

That and other data from the Provincetown outbreak provided evidence that pushed agency scientists to advise that vaccinated people across the country again wear masks in indoor public settings in certain circumstances.

“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,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement sent to USA TODAY on Friday.

Provincetown has been a busy spot this summer, which contributed to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in July. A U.S. Center for Disease Control study of the Provincetown cases concluded that 74% of people who were infected in the outbreak were fully vaccinated.

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“This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to the CDC’s mask recommendation.” Health officials continue to reiterate the majority of COVID-19 transmission occurs among the unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated people. “Vaccinated individuals continue to represent a very small amount of transmission occurring around the country,” Walensky said. “We continue to estimate that the risk of breakthrough infection with symptoms upon exposure to the delta variant is reduced by sevenfold. The reduction is twentyfold for hospitalizations and death.”

What the Provincetown COVID-19 data showed

The CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report detailing the agency’s investigation of the Provincetown outbreak found that 469 Massachusetts residents were infected with COVID-19 after a number of large public gatherings that occurred there between July 3 and 17.

Of those Massachusetts residents infected, 74% were fully vaccinated.

Of the vaccinated people infected, 79% had symptoms including cough, headache, sore throat, muscle pain and fever.

Five people of the 469 people infected were hospitalized, four of whom were fully vaccinated, according to the report. Two of the fully vaccinated people hospitalized had underlying conditions, USA TODAY reported.

No deaths related to the outbreak have been reported.

Delta variant is to blame

The CDC sequenced samples taken from 133 patients and discovered 90% of those infections were caused by the delta variant, which carries 1,000 times the viral load than the original, or wild, COVID-19 virus.

One crucial finding of the CDC study was that vaccinated and unvaccinated people were found to carry similar levels of the virus in their bodies.

The delta variant was first identified in India and is known to be more transmissible than the wild virus, the state Department of Public Health said on previous occasions. Two factors, officials said, are that individuals infected with the delta variant tend to have more virus in their respiratory tract than other variants and infected individuals may carry the virus longer.

The Provincetown data show that the delta variant is highly transmissible, but authors of the CDC report stressed that vaccination remains the most important strategy to prevent severe illness and death.

On Tuesday, the CDC recommended that everyone — regardless of vaccination status — wear masks in indoor public settings in areas where COVID-19 transmission is high or substantial. Barnstable County is currently classified as an area of high transmission.

But findings from the Provincetown investigation suggest that even areas where transmission is not classified as high or substantial should consider expanding public health protections including masking indoors “given the potential risk of infection during attendance at large public gatherings that include travelers from many areas with differing levels of transmission,” authors of the CDC study wrote.

People involved in the cluster said they had attended densely packed indoor and outdoor events at venues including bars, restaurants, guest houses and rental homes, the report said.

On July 3, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health had reported a two-week average COVID- 19 incidence of zero cases per 100,000 people per day in Provincetown. By July 17, the two-week average incidence increased to 177 cases per 100,000 people per day in town, the report stated.

Dr. Pei-Yong Shi, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch who has studied vaccines and COVID-19, said the study is significant because it shows the importance of masking while the highly contagious delta variant is circulating.

A Tuesday notice from town and county officials amended what was a public health advisory in town to a public health mandate that requires indoor masking in local businesses.

The notice stated that COVID-19 testing is still being offered at the parking lot of the Veterans Memorial Community Center at 2 Mayflower St. in Provincetown. Testing has been extended through Friday, and is available between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily. Tests are free and appointments are not required.

Vaccines are also available at the site through Friday.

Gov. Charlie Baker encouraged people who have not yet been fully vaccinated to do so. “There are roughly 800 to 1,000 cases that have been identified as part of that (Provincetown) cluster, a very, very, very small number, a very small number, actually ended up getting very sick and being hospitalized,” he said Friday. “That’s because most of those folks were vaccinated and vaccines work.”

Provincetown is working with Barnstable County to procure and distribute 1,200 at-home COVID-19 tests to local businesses, residents and visitors.

Barnstable County Director of Health and Environment Sean O’Brien, who is listed in the acknowledgment section of the CDC report, said that the CDC’s study of the Provincetown data was made possible in part because of local contact tracing conducted by Public Health Nurse Deirdre Arvidson and other Barnstable County staff who provided data to the state DPH.

“Both Deirdre and (Deputy Human Services Director Vaira Harik) were on daily calls with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health going over data,” O’Brien said.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health did not return a request for comment on the findings.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: breakthrough; chinavirus; chinavirusvaccine; covidoutbreak; deltavariant; provincetown; vaxxedsuperspreaders
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To: mass55th

@ post 15 - agree. Biology 101. These bugs replicate every 10 hours. An infected person has billions of viruses and the pressure from the vaccines causes micro-evolution. Hopefully the new variants will continue to be less virulent.


21 posted on 07/31/2021 11:42:45 AM PDT by week 71
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To: Capt. Tom

Which test? The one the CDC just dropped because of a high rate of false positives or the new one that is probably worse. This entire pandemic proves that the entire government is inept, incompetent and corrupt.


23 posted on 07/31/2021 11:45:56 AM PDT by cp124 (Family and friends, pay to play government.)
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To: Capt. Tom
469 Massachusetts residents were infected with COVID-19 after a number of large public gatherings that occurred there between July 3 and 17...

We're now learning that these public gatherings can best be described as a giant gay orgy.

Here it is: The actual data on which the CDC's new mask guidance is based

24 posted on 07/31/2021 11:46:31 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Capt. Tom

Which is saying you can get COVID regardless if you’re vaxxed and have to deal with whatever side effects, or, take the chance of getting COVID and deal with that and if you survive, you’re pretty much safe.


25 posted on 07/31/2021 11:48:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: SkyDancer

I hang out with unvaccinated people on my street. Senior Airline pilot/instructor, medical workers, a builder, plus spouses. Been hanging out, having parties the whole way. All of us unvaccinated, everyone fine.

Vaccinated people are not allowed in my house, I’ll see them outside.


26 posted on 07/31/2021 11:52:10 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: blackdog
"Why do people still get a flu shot every year? Why does a flu shot not always work well?"

I never got the flu shot until 6-7 years ago, as a recommendation from my endocrinologist, but I won't be getting it ever again. I'll be 74 soon, worked for 25 years in NY State's prison system. Came into contact with all sorts of people with all sorts of diseases. Lived through the introduction of AIDS in the system in the mid 80's, and the drug-resistant strain of TB that went through the prisons. I never got sick a day in all those years. I live alone, and have basically been social distancing since I retired in 2003. I've driven to Indiana and back twice over the past year. Hit just about every rest stop on the way out and back in New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Stayed in hotels in Ohio, ate out in restaurants, shopped in various grocery and retail stores with my son during my trips, and haven't caught a damn thing. They can take their vaccines and shove them.

27 posted on 07/31/2021 11:52:47 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Capt. Tom

CDC to the vaxxed:

“Sorry, we lied—but you were stupid to believe us anyway.”


28 posted on 07/31/2021 11:53:39 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SkyDancer
"Which is saying you can get COVID regardless if you’re vaxxed..."

Whether you get the vaccine, or you don't, you can get Covid, give it to others, and die. The difference is that you can die from the virus if you're not vaccinated, but you can die from the virus, or the side effects of the vaccine if you take the shot.

29 posted on 07/31/2021 11:57:16 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: cp124
...snip... This entire pandemic proves that the entire government is inept, incompetent and corrupt.

I believe you have nailed it.

The pandemic also shows many in our medical profession are not far behind our politicians in ineptness , incompetence and corruption. -Tom

30 posted on 07/31/2021 11:57:33 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
I have heard from somewhere that Delta is extra contagious but extra mild, so it is spreading natural immunity. I have no sources to back this up.

In MO, It's starting to show in the numbers. Cases have skyrocketed while deaths are slightly climbing. Hospitalizations seem to be pretty high now. Losing about 10-11 people per day with over 1,000 hospitalized with 570 of those being in the ICU. Likely the usual 2.7 comorbidities and old as dirt.

COVID seems very good at killing off old, obese, sickly people. Perfect for people who want State run healthcare. Cuts the cost of Medicare and SSI.

Early use of Ivermectin/HCQ would take care of a lot of this but tptb would rather people die. We truly live in evil times.

31 posted on 07/31/2021 11:58:00 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Capt. Tom

Also stories that these parties were gay free for alls. But if that’s the cas wand this is the result, the delta variant is very weak and will do a better job at inoculating people then the 24/7 vaccine propaganda ever produced.


32 posted on 07/31/2021 11:58:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: mass55th
Same here. Until I got a nasty case of seasonal flu. After that in my early 50's I get my yearly flu shot from my doctor. My heart condition at present precludes me from getting an experimental covid vaccine which causes heart inflammation and blood clots.

My decisions.

33 posted on 07/31/2021 11:59:33 AM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Capt. Tom

I think it’s most anyone who graduated from a university in the past couple of decades. They seem to be at the top of most fields. CEOs/Tech/Med/Law


34 posted on 07/31/2021 12:04:22 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: SaxxonWoods

Vaxxed people who have the COVID virus with no effects can pass on the virus to others; they’re no safer than unvaxxed people.


35 posted on 07/31/2021 12:11:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: blackdog
"My decisions."

Exactly. My body, my choice.

36 posted on 07/31/2021 12:13:41 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Capt. Tom

The Biden Admin is a total mess no one knows what anyone is doing


37 posted on 07/31/2021 12:21:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave
"The Biden Admin is a total mess no one knows what anyone is doing"

In normal times that's a good thing. They leave us alone when clueless. This batch knows they are clueless and overcompensate with nastiness for stupidity we would otherwise be completely fine with. I like a clueless central government as long as they are proportionately humble about it.

38 posted on 07/31/2021 12:25:27 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Perhaps too many of the vaxxed think they are indestructible now.

They’re partying like it’s 2019.


39 posted on 07/31/2021 12:34:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: TigersEye
Perhaps too many of the vaxxed think they are indestructible now.

They’re partying like it’s 2019.

When put to the real world test, these experimental drugs are shown to be not working.
The goal posts will be moved again.-Tom

40 posted on 07/31/2021 12:53:10 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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