Posted on 08/01/2021 11:19:28 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Breakthrough infections were responsible for three-quarters of COVID-19 cases in an outbreak during large public gatherings on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and nearly all sequenced cases were the Delta variant, researchers found.
Of 469 cases linked to multiple summer events and large summer gatherings in a small town, 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated people, and almost 80% of those cases were symptomatic, reported Catherine Brown, DVM, of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and colleagues.
There were five hospitalizations, four among fully vaccinated people, and no deaths. Of 133 cases with sequence information available, 89% were from the Delta variant (B.1.617.2), the authors wrote in an early edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Moreover, vaccination coverage in Massachusetts was reported to be 69% as of July 3, they noted.
Topline data were previewed in stories by the New York Times on Thursday, and shared in internal CDC documents by the Washington Post. The data on this outbreak, and the Delta variant, reportedly helped provide the impetus for the agency's change in indoor masking guidance earlier this week. While the town was not named by the MMWR report, the outbreak reportedly was linked to events in Provincetown.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, noted in a statement that "rapid receipt and review of unpublished data" helped contribute to the guideline change.
As previously reported, the authors compared RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values in 127 vaccinated people with breakthrough cases to 84 unvaccinated people or those with unknown vaccination status, and found them to be comparable (median 22.77 and 21.54, respectively).
Walensky specifically pointed to the high viral loads among the vaccinated in this case, suggesting that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant can transmit the virus.
"This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC's updated mask recommendation," she said, saying it was "updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones."
"Findings from this investigation suggest that even jurisdictions without substantial or high COVID-19 might consider expanding prevention strategies, including masking in indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status," they wrote.
The authors detailed increased reports of COVID-19 cases in Barnstable County, beginning on July 10, including those who were fully vaccinated. They described "multiple summer events and large public gatherings" from July 3 to 17, where those with COVID-19 reported "attending densely packed indoor and outdoor events at venues that included bars, restaurants, guest houses, and rental homes."
They identified a cluster of cases in Massachusetts residents, who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at 14 days or sooner after travel to or residing in Barnstable County.
Of the 346 fully vaccinated cases, median age was 42, and 87% were men. The most common symptoms were cough, headache, sore throat, myalgia, and fever. Median interval from completion of at least 14 days after the final vaccine dose was 86 days (range 6 to 178 days).
There were also reports of cases from residents of 22 other states who traveled to this town during the period, and reports of secondary transmission.
The authors urged more stringent prevention strategies for these types of events, given, "the potential risk of infection during attendance at large public gatherings that include travelers from many areas with differing levels of transmission."
Sounds like the Provincetown crowd WAS getting “booster injections”...
Like a bad cold, this story doesn’t go away easy. Freepers keep reposting it despite all that’s been said to ridicule the CDC about it.
The CDC should go back to spraying neighborhoods with clouds of DDT.
Obviously a new Bioweapon.
Well, in general, when you know someone is lying you publicly call them out and reprimand then.
The converse is true as well: if someone is telling the truth, or in other words, their pronouncements line up with facts and logic, they should be commended.
A government agency should never get a free ride where trust is concerned, in fact, given the general lack of character of government employees, we should be applying the highest level of scrutiny possible at all times.
Rump rangers to the rescue.
Dear CDC:
How many cases are coming across the border?
This may also mean, that the Federal PREP Act does NOT provide liability protection to local health departments and their employeesif they do NOT (prescribe and administer) FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines as well as for supervising and administering COVID-19 vaccination programs....
In other words, there is no liability shied to local bureaucrats if they don't push the shots.
This sets up a legal dilemma. If local bureaucrats push the shots, they can't get sued. If local bureaucrats encourage freedom of choice and freewill - ya know, the American way - some Karen can sue their azz.
It's a perfectly statist Act.
And how many got unvaccinated who have had covid have gotten it a second time? Very few is my guess but I never hear anything on that.
I often quote whats his name when I agree with what he said at the time.
The Cape Cod Cluster must have homosexuals with AIDS. Of course they will get the Delta Variant even if vaccinated.
You beat me to it. See post #32.
The CDC had to finally admit that the tests they’ve been using to claim that so many people have contracted the chicom flu over the past year, can’t tell the difference between the chicom flu and the run of the mill flu that has existed since we’ve been able to test for such things.
The narrative is finally falling apart.
But feel free to keep trying to keep us in fear. It’s just not woring any more.
You need not fear to read their web pages. Knowledge can not hurt you.
“large public gatherings”
__________
Minor league baseball games?
Independence Day Parades?
Fireworks displays?
Pro-life rallies?
Surely these were wholesome gatherings the bulk of our fellow Americans can relate to and thetefore see themselves as subject to the same percentage chance of being at the epicenter of a similar mini-outbreak, such that the news stories were worth writing and publishing nationally...?
It’s so cute how you swallow the CDC propaganda like a cheap whore
BTTT
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