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How concerned should we be about breakthrough coronavirus infections?

Céline Gounder speaks with STAT about the Delta variant, vaccinations, and the future of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Hasnain says:

“ And finally, socializing outdoors as much as possible to minimize your risk. Those would be the things that I think we do need to be thinking about. At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said that a close contact was somebody that you’re indoors with unmasked for 15 minutes or more. The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it’s one second.”

Posted on 2021-07-24T19:08:45+0000