The infections among attendees of a 92-person wedding in April were in people over 50, a study says. One who'd gotten the Covaxin vaccine died.
couple important bullet points here:
the people who infected everyone else had gotten negative covid tests before traveling to the wedding
everyone was in a tent. it doesnt say how enclosed the tent was but it would definitely cut down on air flow
doesnt say whether or not people were wearing masks but i suspect not
if these people hadnt been vaccinated, it would have been a lot worse
the big delta wave will hit the US pretty soon, and is already starting in states with low vaccination rates. new mutations (delta plus, epsilon and lambda) are on the way; lambda is more infectious (symptoms and severity are unclear). the CDC is wrong, everyone should still be wearing masks indoors and in crowds (which is what the WHO says anyway). children still arent vaccinated.
you do not want to get covid at all, even mild covid. long covid even with mild symptoms is really fucking people up (talk to anyone with a chronic illness about what this is like and hopefully they can scare you straight). even mild symptoms like “brain fog” can effectively ruin your life. one guy got tinnitus from long covid that was so bad he committed suicide.
in ten years youre not going to regret being extra cautious right now, but you could very easily regret being careless.
the CDC is wrong, everyone should still be wearing masks indoors and in crowds (which is what the WHO says anyway)
from the article:
"But she also stressed that preliminary data from the past few months suggested that 99.5% of coronavirus deaths in the US were occurring in unvaccinated people. 'Those deaths were preventable with a simple, safe shot,' she said."
they are quoting Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Both wedding attendees who had Covaxin got their second shots in India, just 12 days before the wedding, study author Timothy Farinholt from Baylor College of Medicine told Insider. He suspects that may be the reason why they got infected with the Delta variant in the first place, because their second shot hadn't had enough time to take full effect."
please get vaccinated! as soon as possible!
and remember you're not fully vaccinated until two weeks after your last shot
