Vaccinated people infected by Covid-19 Delta variant carry as much virus as unvaccinated.
QUICK FACTS:
- A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report says “127 vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant during the outbreak appeared to carry as much virus as 84 unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people who become infected,” according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
- CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday that “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.”
- The report referred to an outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, where local officials said that “at least 430 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been linked to one cluster following festivities over the July 4 weekend in Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod,” notes WSJ.
- Cases in which people are infected after having received the vaccine are called “breakthrough infections.”
- WSJ says it “isn’t clear how common breakthrough infections are and how much they contribute to the virus’s spread.”
- The New York Times reports scientists are saying vaccinated individuals becoming infected with coronavirus is “more common than once thought.”
BACKGROUND:
- Nevertheless, the CDC still recommends individuals receive the vaccine.
- The CDC also recommended earlier this week that even vaccinated people must go back to wearing masks.
- Dr. Peter McCullough—epidemiologist, cardiologist, and professor with thousands of National Library of Medicine (NLM) publications—said in a recent interview that the coronavirus vaccine spike protein is “dangerous,” “damaging to organs,” and can be “lethal.” See the full interview below.
- On June 1, American Faith reported how McCullough had warned early on that the vaccines do not protect against new variants.
- An FDA slideshow presentation from 2020 resurfaced on social media this week showing the FDA’s “working list of possible adverse event outcomes” after taking the vaccine that included Guillain-Barré syndrome, encephalitis, seizures, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis/pericarditis, autoimmune disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth outcomes, and more.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
