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In reply to the discussion: 43% of new covid cases in MA are breakthrough cases [View all]Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)56. Proof we need to keep wearing masks...
vaxxed or not, cover your face.
I am, and I was Modernized in Mar/Apr. Still wear a mask indoors around strangers and in public.
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That's certainly true. My concern is people with mild or asymptomatic cases infecting children
femmedem
Jul 2021
#4
I read a theory that long-haul Covid is really a reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus by Covid
meadowlander
Jul 2021
#26
Yeah, it's not fun knowledge to have. But it's better to know the risks and take precautions.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#11
It's mutating quickly because people use conventant reasons not to get vaxxed.
marble falls
Jul 2021
#2
unfortunately, no. We're choosing candidates and they wanted the vote to be in person.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#50
Jerusalem Times found fully vaxed Pfizer to be 64% effective against delta
SheltieLover
Jul 2021
#35
hard to evaluate what that means because with vaccinated persons symptoms are more
wiggs
Jul 2021
#10
One way to evaluate it is that 14% of all their reported breakthrough cases were last week. n/t
femmedem
Jul 2021
#13
Dr. Fauci said yesterday before Congress that about 5% of hospitalizations are from vaccinated
totodeinhere
Jul 2021
#22
+1, that's tracking along with what's expected. Still wouldn't want this but its good to know that
uponit7771
Jul 2021
#36
My take is that they are still cases because they are transmissable to others.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#59
At least one very large study showed that asymptomatic people are not spreaders.
TheRickles
Jul 2021
#66
Exactly. The CDC has only been reporting breakthrough hospitalizations abnd deaths.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#53
That's because MA has most people vaccinated. MA has the 2nd highest vaccination rate at 72%
Quixote1818
Jul 2021
#31
Correct. But you also have to consider that the Delta variant has only begun to take off.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#55
I'm not a statistician at all, but I believe that figure is still accurate for severe cases.
femmedem
Jul 2021
#58
That's the key question, but it gets obscured by the focus on "cases", which has come to mean
TheRickles
Jul 2021
#67