National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would not recommend fully vaccinated individuals go to restaurants.
QUICK FACTS:
- On Sunday, CNN Anchor Dana Bash asked NIAID director Fauci, “How should vaccinated and boosted people behave? Can they go into a restaurant, eat safely indoors right now?”
- Fauci responded, “You know, when you’re having such a — I call it a tsunami of infections, Dana, we are seeing people who are vaccinated and boosted who are getting breakthrough infections.”
- “So when you’re in a situation where you have so many infections going out, the thing that you want to say is that, if you want to do things like that, better do them in a setting where you know the people around you are vaccinated and boosted,” he went on to say.
WHAT ELSE FAUCI SAID:
“That’s the reason why I’ve been saying when asked about the holiday season, the safest thing to do is to be in a home setting, friends, relatives who you know are vaccinated and boosted,” Dr. Fauci continued. “If you want to go the extra step of safety, then get a quick antigen test, which will give you an extra degree of safety. What you want to avoid are places where you have 20, 30, 40, 50 people, many of whom you have no idea of whether or not they’re vaccinated or boosted. That’s more risky than the home setting.”
BACKGROUND:
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday admitted in a memo that Covid-19 vaccines are not effective enough to allow recipients to travel on cruise ships.
- “Avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status,” read the memo. “Even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.”
