Why vaccinated people are getting ‘breakthrough’ infections
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| These toxic shots don't offer "immunity." |
Raucous 4th of July celebrations disperse the virus from Provincetown, Mass., to dozens of places across the country, sometimes carried by fully vaccinated celebrants.
As the Delta variant surges across the nation, reports of infections in vaccinated people have become increasingly frequent — including, most recently, among at least six Texas Democrats, a White House aide, and an aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The highly contagious variant, combined with a lagging vaccination campaign and the near absence of preventive restrictions, is [allegedly] fueling a rapid rise in cases in all states and hospitalizations in nearly all of them.
It now accounts for about 83 percent of infections diagnosed in the United States.
But as worrying as the trend may seem, "breakthrough" infections — vaccinated people getting sick with Covid 19 — are still relatively uncommon, experts said, and those that cause serious illness, hospitalization, or death even more so.
Less than 3 percent of people hospitalized for Covid-19 are unvaccinated. “The takeaway [propaganda] message remains, if you’re vaccinated, you are protected,” said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York.
“You are [probably] not going to end up with severe disease, hospitalization, or death.”
Reports of breakthrough infections should not be taken to mean that the vaccines do not work, Dr. Tony Fauci, the Biden administration’s top pandemic adviser [and vaccine profiteer, repeatedly accused of lying to Congress and admittedly lying to the US public on the futility of wearing masks], said on Thursday at a news briefing:
“By no means does that mean that you’re dealing with an unsuccessful vaccine,” he said. “The success of the vaccine is based on the prevention of illness.”
Still, vaccinated people can come down with infections, overwhelmingly asymptomatic or mild.
That may come as a surprise to many Americans who underwent experimental vaccinations, who often assume that they are completely shielded from the virus [and related variants].
And breakthrough infections raise the possibility, as yet unresolved, that vaccinated people may spread the virus to others.
Given the upwelling of virus across much of the country, some scientists say it is time for vaccinated people to [be ordered to again start] wearing masks indoors and in crowded spaces like shopping malls, or concert halls — a recommendation that goes beyond current guidelines from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), which recommends masking only for unvaccinated people.
The agency does not plan to change its guidelines unless there is a significant change in the science, said a federal official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted by authorities to speak on the matter.
The agency’s guidance already gives local leaders latitude to adjust their policies based on rates of transmission in their communities, he added. Citing the rise of the Delta variant, health officials in several California jurisdictions are already urging a return to indoor masking; Los Angeles County is requiring it.
“Seatbelts reduce risk, but we still need to drive carefully,” said Dr. Scott Dryden-Peterson, an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. “We’re still trying to figure out what is ‘drive carefully’ in the Delta era, and what we should be doing.”
The uncertainty about Delta results in part from how it differs from previous versions of the [manmade gain of function] coronavirus. Although its mode of transmission is the same — it is inhaled, usually in indoor spaces — Delta is thought to be about twice as contagious as the original virus.
Significantly, early evidence also suggests that people infected with the Delta variant may carry roughly a thousandfold more virus than those infected with the original virus. While that does not seem to mean that they get sicker, it does probably mean that they are more contagious and for longer. More
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