Loading ...CDC Director Says Vaccines ‘Can’t Prevent Transmission’; Fauci Says ‘Too Early To Tell’ On Holiday Gatherings
“But you can “safely gather” 1000s for the Met gala or 900 at Obama’s birthday party?”
The new study showed that protection against transmission seemed to wane over time, however. After three months, people who had breakthrough infections after being vaccinated with AstraZeneca were just as likely to spread the delta variant as the unvaccinated. While protection against transmission decreased in people who had received the Pfizer vaccine, there was still a benefit when compared with people who were unvaccinated.
In the words of the researchers, the Pfizer vaccine’s ability to reduce transmission was ‘substantially’ lower by week 12.