Dickerson to Fauci: Do All Breakthrough Cases Have the Similar Ability to Spread Covid?

EXCERPT:

DICKERSON: Sticking on on that point, we've always known that it was not 100% effective when you're vaccinated. So, among the breakthrough cases that we always knew would happen, in every breakthrough instance, is it true that the ability to spread is high, or is it a smaller subset of the breakthrough cases in which this discovery was made about the ability to spread?"

FAUCI: "Well, the phenomenon of the ability to spread is clear. We're seeing that very, very clearly in a number of situations. When you look at the data that we've gotten from a single study so far, and other studies are coming out, you have a variability. But the mean, the sort of average or mean level of virus in the nasopharynx is really quite similar, almost identical on an average. So you would think, obviously, when you have biological variability, you're going to have some people high, some people low, some people in the middle. But the median or mean is going to be right there, which is very similar to the unvaccinated individual, which is troublesome, which tells you the potential for transmission is there."