It’s important to acknowledge that vaccinated people can acquire/transmit the Delta variant. While vaccinated individuals should experience less severe acute #COVID-19, they may still be at risk for LongCovid/PASC (which has been shown to develop after asymptomatic/mild COVID-19)
https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/1409696297628491784
2/ For example, this team reported a range of long-term symptoms in a cohort of previously confirmed or presumed COVID-19 patients whose acute symptoms were largely managed without the need for hospitalization: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
3/ This preprint documented persistent COVID-19 symptoms in 1,407 subjects with confirmed #SARS-CoV-2 infection. ∼32% of subjects reporting symptoms at 61+ days after infection were asymptomatic at the time of initial SARS-CoV-2 testing: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33688670/
4/ Similarly, as discussed in this @nytimes article, studies have found that up to 75% of children who develop post-COVID multisystem inflammatory syndrome (#MIS-C) were asymptomatic during their initial COVID-19 illness: google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
5/ It follows that to keep #LongCovid/PASC and #MIS-C cases to an absolute minimum, even vaccinated individuals should be wearing masks whenever possible. And since SARS-CoV-2 is spread via aerosol transmision, N95s masks should be strongly prioritized
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