'The war has changed': Delta strain equally contagious in vaccinated cases, masks a must, CDC says

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Vaccinated people are eight times less likely than unvaccinated people to contract COVID-19 and 25 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from the coronavirus.

) shows that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is equally contagious whether it's contracted by a vaccinated or unvaccinated person.

Health officials need to acknowledge that"the war has changed," one CDC slide said."Given higher transmissibility ... universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the Delta variant." CDC data appears to show that the Delta variant could be as transmissible in vaccinated people who suffer breakthrough cases as it is in the unvaccinated.Apart from this data, the CDC slides also revealed the agency's worries that breakthrough cases are undermining public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

 

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This is false statement! Where the hell are Twitter fact checkers?

Why TF was the mask mandate dropped in the first place?

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