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From that "Conservative, far right Newspaper"

Experts ask to see data behind new policy
Joel Achenbach, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ben Guarino and Carolyn Y. Johnson

The Washington Post - July 28, 2021

WASHINGTON - New recommendations from federal health officials this week on when vaccinated Americans should don face masks came with a startling bolt of news: People who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like unvaccinated people. That means they could become spreaders of the disease and should return to wearing masks indoors in certain situations, including when vulnerable people are present.

But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not publish the new research. In the text of the updated masking guidance, the agency merely cited "CDC COVID-19 Response Team, unpublished data, 2021."

Some outside scientists have their own message: Show us the data.

"They're making a claim that people with delta who are vaccinated and unvaccinated have similar levels of viral load, but nobody knows what that means," said Gregg Gonsalves, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. "It's meaningless unless we see the data."

One other excellent point, later in the article, while the hospitalizations are up, the breakthrough infections appear to occur in people with compromised immune systems, where the vaccine did not work well.

In the eight hospitals run by Houston Methodist, there are about 300 covid-19 patients, triple the number in early June, Musser said. Most new cases involve the delta variant. He estimated that 20 percent of the Covid-19 patients were fully vaccinated before becoming infected.

But he cautioned that most of these patients have underlying medical conditions that impaired their ability to mount an immune response after being vaccinated.

https://www.chron.com/news/article/Experts-ask-to-see-data-behind-new-policy-16347545.php