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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has walked back the claim made by its director that vaccinated people don\u2019t carry the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said earlier this week that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don\u2019t get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the health agency clarified the statement Thursday,\u00a0 saying \u201cthe evidence isn’t clear\u201d and that Walensky was \u201cspeaking broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19,” a CDC spokesperson told the New York Times. “The evidence isn\u2019t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said confusion about bulletproof immunity could lead to Americans refusing to wear a mask after getting the jabs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis opens the door to the skeptics who think the government is sugarcoating the science,\u201d Bach told the paper.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Walensky told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: \u201cOur data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don\u2019t get sick.”<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that it\u2019s not just in the clinical trials, it\u2019s also in real-world data,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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Walensky’s comments aren’t backed by scientific studies that a vaccine can completely stop transmission of the bug. No vaccine to date has been proven to be 100 percent effective on all people.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the CDC published a study of 4,000 people showing Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines prevent up to 90 percent of coronavirus infections after the second dose.<\/p>\n