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Syndication: Detroit Free Press
New York (77WABC) – A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Friday, shows that three-quarters of the people who were infected in an outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Massachusetts were fully vaccinated.
The data, which is detailed in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, was linked to massive gatherings of people over the Independence day weekend and provided evidence for the CDC to reverse recommendations on mask-wearing.
The CDC was criticized this week for doing an about-face in its mask guidance without any evidence or data to support the decision, but the CDC report backs up the decision. The new recommendations said that vaccinated individuals should wear masks in indoor public settings in some circumstances or in COVID hotspots.
The study also found that vaccinated people carried as much virus as those unvaccinated, and that vaccinated people could spread the virus to each other.
“This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation,” CDC director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. “The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones.”
