Indoor mask mandates need to come back, although the mandates won't be as effective as a lot of people want them to be because the sources of transmission are unvaccinated people who probably aren't going to follow mask mandates anyway. Fully opening schools without approving vaccines for children is going to be disaster as well. At the end of the day the US' success or failure against Delta will be determined by vaccination rate and very little else. Vaccinating 10 people will do far more to prevent spread and deaths than masking 1000 people, for example.
The term "breakthrough cases" can be scarier than it actually is. Many public health experts think the term is needlessly scary. "Breakthrough case" sounds a lot scarier than "Vaccinated person has cold-like symptoms for two or three days." If a vaccine is 90% effective against infection, then you're going to get a lot of "breakthrough cases" because 10% of millions of people is a lot of people. This isn't scaring public health experts, and it's not the cause of the current mini-wave. They will be almost entirely mild cases unlikely to transmit.
The overwhelming majority of hospitalizataions and virtually all deaths are among the unvaccinated, indicating how effective the vaccines really are. Pfizer is 96% effective against hospitalization, for example.
Indoor mask mandates need to come back, although the mandates won't be as effective as a lot of people want them to be because the sources of transmission are unvaccinated people who probably aren't going to follow mask mandates anyway. Fully opening schools without approving vaccines for children is going to be disaster as well. At the end of the day the US' success or failure against Delta will be determined by vaccination rate and very little else. Vaccinating 10 people will do far more to prevent spread and deaths than masking 1000 people, for example.
The term "breakthrough cases" can be scarier than it actually is. Many public health experts think the term is needlessly scary. "Breakthrough case" sounds a lot scarier than "Vaccinated person has cold-like symptoms for two or three days." If a vaccine is 90% effective against infection, then you're going to get a lot of "breakthrough cases" because 10% of millions of people is a lot of people. This isn't scaring public health experts, and it's not the cause of the current mini-wave. They will be almost entirely mild cases unlikely to transmit.
The overwhelming majority of hospitalizataions and virtually all deaths are among the unvaccinated, indicating how effective the vaccines really are. Pfizer is 96% effective against hospitalization, for example.
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Yeah I agree, the long term effects are what's really scary now that pretty much everyone I know is vaccinated.