The director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that vaccinated Americans should wear masks so they do not accidentally transmit the coronavirus to anyone else.
Anchor Dana Bash asked: ‘I do want to ask about the coronavirus restrictions, still in force even for Americans who have been fully vaccinated, and some Americans who have been vaccinated might want to feel that they should not wear masks apart. You claim how effective the vaccine is. So what is the scientific reason why it is not safe for vaccinated Americans to do these things? ‘
Fauci said: ‘The problem is that it depends on what you mean by safe and relative risks. Let me explain, Dana. The first thing you need to realize when you are vaccinated is reducing your risk of becoming effective and being very low. So the question is: why are there restrictions? This is because, under certain circumstances, someone can be vaccinated, have no clinical disease at all, but become infected and do not even know it, and that the virus is transmitted in your nasal pharynx and can inadvertently transmit it to someone else. which may not be vaccinated. and becomes ill. ”
He added, ‘The other reason for wearing a mask is that there are variants that circulate, and although it is unusual, we see breakthrough infections, but we also see variants that are slightly disturbing. Luckily for us, the 117, which is of origin in the UK, our vaccines are very effective against it. If people say, why can I not go? You can travel. Your risk is really very low. The CDC says that it depends on your level of risk that you want to take. the one thing you want to do is be careful not to accidentally infect someone else, or because it has 70,000, 60 to 70,000 new infections in the community, this is a precarious situation. That’s the point. So we do not want people to think that you are not dramatically reducing the risk of being vaccinated. You absolutely do. The risk is very low. And people who make decisions about what they want to do, and that’s a relative risk. what risk am I willing to take? ”
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