It's a great reason to get vaccinated if you haven’t already.
on November 12. What’s more, he added: “I believe that people can and should travel during the holidays.”
Again, Dr. Fauci’s guidance that it’s okay to gather and travel is intended for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “It is very, very clear that the overwhelming burden of infection, hospitalization, and death is weighted towards the unvaccinated,” Dr. Fauci explained. Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than vaccinated people,This is all well and good if the loved ones you’re yearning to see are actually all vaccinated.
. And a potential uptick in infection has consequences for vaccinated people too. “As that uptick occurs, and you get more infections, and more dynamics of infection spread in the community—that would put even the vaccinated at more risk,” Dr. Fauci explained. The more infection spreading in a community, the more likely a vaccinated person is to come into contact with it, potentially get a breakthrough COVID-19 case, and possibly continue to spread the virus to others.
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