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Covid-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease, experts say, as rising cases threaten unvaccinated
Posted: Jul 17, 2021 9:00 PM
Updated: Jul 17, 2021 9:00 PM
Posted By: By Dakin Andone and Travis Caldwell, CNN
With Covid-19 cases rising and the Delta variant gaining increased prevalence in the United States, health experts are reiterating that vaccines are effective in the ways that matter most: preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death.
Speaking to CNN s Jim Acosta on Saturday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the vaccines are shown to be highly effective in preventing symptomatic, clinically apparent disease. When you start seeing what s called breakthrough infections, if you look carefully at them, the overwhelming majority of those are people who either have no symptoms or only very mild symptoms, Fauci said. So the vaccines are still very, very effective in preventing severe disease.
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(CNN) Expectations the United States would find itself returning to a pre-pandemic normalcy this summer are quickly giving way to the realities of a prolonged fight against Covid-19, as all 50 states see a rise in infections.
And health officials nationwide are taking note. If you are unvaccinated, the risk is incredibly high and maybe in some areas higher than it s ever been, said Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Because there are not mask mandates, people are enjoying this wonderful return of summer and are a little more carefree and lackadaisical and making it more possible that you could be exposed, Spencer told CNN Friday.
endIndex:
(CNN) With Covid-19 cases rising and the Delta variant gaining increased prevalence in the United States, health experts are reiterating that vaccines are effective in the ways that matter most: preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death.
Speaking to CNN s Jim Acosta on Saturday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the vaccines are shown to be highly effective in preventing symptomatic, clinically apparent disease. When you start seeing what s called breakthrough infections, if you look carefully at them, the overwhelming majority of those are people who either have no symptoms or only very mild symptoms, Fauci said. So the vaccines are still very, very effective in preventing severe disease.