CDC Director Seems to Suggest CDC Won’t Be Recommending an End to Masking

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WALENSKY: "I think that really important thing to emphasize here is the best way you can protect people with underlying conditions, immunosuppression, and people who are unable to get vaccinated, is to get vaccines yourself, to surround them by people who are vaccinated, which puts them at much lower risk of disease. What we do know right now from the Delta variant is that people who have had two doses of vaccine, they still need to wear their masks in the rare case that they might be a breakthrough infection. We absolutely are having studies that are starting now, so that we can assess if, after your booster shot, if you were to get a breakthrough infection, whether you can still transmit. Our hope is no and we'll absolutely be doing those studies. Once we have those studies, I do hope that, with disease transmission coming down, community transmission coming down, we will one day be able to get rid of those masks."