New research from the CDC – the American version of the RIVM – shows that vaccinated people can pass on the virus just as easily as unvaccinated people, and that they have the same viral load. This applies to the Delta variant. The conclusion is that we have to learn to live with this virus, and that the message around vaccines should be that they… a serious illness help prevent. Nothing more nothing less.
The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than previous variants and spreads just as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal CDC document that also says officials must “recognize that the war has changed.”
The document is an internal slide presentation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has come into the hands of The Washington Post. It chronicles the struggle of the nation’s largest public health agency to convince the public to embrace vaccination and prevention measures, including wearing masks, as the number of cases rises in the United States and new research suggests vaccinated people may be able to spread the virus. to spread.
The document is an urgent appeal to the agency, revealing that the agency knows it needs to renew its message to the people to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious it almost looks like a different virus, and that more quickly. from target to target then jumps Ebola or the common cold.
Importantly, the paper said, research shows that vaccinated individuals infected with delta may be able to transmit the virus just as easily as unvaccinated individuals. In addition, vaccinated people infected with delta have a viral load that is comparable to unvaccinated people infected with the variant.
One of the slides of the presentation states that there is a higher risk of hospitalization and death in older age groups than in younger people, regardless of vaccination status. Another slide estimates there are 35,000 symptomatic infections per week among 162 million vaccinated Americans.
The presentation highlights the daunting task facing the CDC, according to the Post. “It should continue to highlight the vaccines’ proven efficacy in preventing severe illness and death, while recognizing that milder breakthrough infections may not be so rare after all, and vaccinated individuals transmit the virus. The agency must move the goalposts of success in full view of the public.”
Because what the CDC is now urging is that citizens should be told that vaccines do not prevent disease, nor do they prevent the virus from being passed on to others, but that vaccinations prevent a serious course of disease or at least limit the chance of it.
“We really need to switch to a goal of preventing serious illness and disability and other serious consequences, and not worry about every single virus particle detected in a person’s nose,” said Kathleen Neuzil – a vaccine expert at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. medicine. “It’s difficult, but I think we have to accept that this virus is not going away.”
And so the playing field is changed again. Because the CDC also states in the internal document that this means that measures must also apply to vaccinated people. So vaccinated or not, that mouth cap has to be on. And they will undoubtedly also push for the 1,5th meter distance.
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