As the world battles the rising cases of the Delta variant of coronavirus, new reports suggest that the variant may cause more severe illness than all other known versions of the virus and spread as easily as chickenpox. An internal document from the US health authority, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant, first identified in India, at the same rate as unvaccinated people, reports said. The contents of the document – a slide presentation – were first reported by The Washington Post on Thursday.
Vaccinated People Can Spread Covid Too
Vaccinated people with so-called breakthrough infections of the Delta variant carry just as much virus in the nose and throat as unvaccinated people and may spread it just as readily, if less often, Dr Rochelle P Walensky, the director of the CDC, acknowledged on Tuesday. But the internal document lays out a broader and even grimmer view of the…
