A CDC document revealed the variant is just as infectious as chickenpox.
However, if you do happen to become infected after being fully vaccinated, you have a great chance of getting through the illness without severe symptoms or hospitalization. To put it in perspective: More than 97% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated, Dr. Walensky confirmed in a recent“In general, breakthrough infections tends to be milder and the symptoms tend to be shorter,” Dr. Swaminathan says.
. If you test positive for COVID-19 without having symptoms, the CDC still recommends that you isolate for 10 days after you test positive.Infectious disease experts expect that COVID-19 will be sticking around. “This virus is going to become part of our ecology,” Dr. Sellick says. “Our chance of getting rid of it was a year ago. We fumbled that terribly.”
There is some hope, though: Dr. Adalja says that COVID-19 may simply become more like the common cold over time, becoming more prevalent during cold and flu season. New variants are also to be expected until a higher percentage of the country’s population is vaccinated, Dr. Sellick says. That’s why there may beWe should be able to keep the pandemic in a place that “won’t cause the same levels of illness and death that we’ve been seeing,” Dr. Sellick says.
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