'You very well may infect another person who may be vulnerable, who may get seriously ill.”
. “Yes, I’ll wear a mask indoors if I’m legally required or politely asked. But I don’t really see why anyone should. In a free society, once everyone has access to a vaccine that overwhelmingly prevents serious sickness and death, there is no reason to enforce lockdowns again, or mask mandates, or social distancing any longer. In fact, there’s every reason not to.”
Wachter went on to list a few of these changes. The fact that Delta is two to three times more contagious than the original virus. The fact that just five minutes of exposure can trigger transmission, as opposed to 15. The fact that Delta cases “may be more serious on average.” The fact that scientists are starting to think that immunity against Delta — from either the vaccines or the virus itself — partially “wanes in ~6 months.
We don’t know yet exactly how much less protection the vaccines provide against infections from Delta, or how much they affect transmission. But recent data is suggestive. Aof 98,000 volunteers by researchers at Imperial College, London — the most extensive real-world study so far — found that fully vaccinated people were 49 percent less likely than unvaccinated people to test positive for COVID-19 during the recent U.K. Delta spike, and 60 percent less likely to experience symptoms.
So in the meantime, what collective responsibility do Americans have to keep unvaccinated people as safe as possible from Delta?
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