Masks Are a Covid Distraction

The CDC should scrap its confusing guidance and make vaccination the only priority.

By William McGurn of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"Ben Wakana of the White House Covid-19 Response Team called the Times out, saying “vaccinated people do not transmit the virus at the same rate as unvaccinated people and if you fail to include that context you’re doing it wrong.”"

"Ditto for stories such as the NBC Newsheadline “Breakthrough Covid cases: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive.” Only the subheadline notes that these cases “represent less than 0.08%” of vaccinated people. NBC cites a death count of 1,400—less than 0.001% of vaccinated people—and many of them tested positive before dying of causes other than Covid.

In short, even the Provincetown outbreak confirms that prioritizing vaccination is the right way to go. Only a handful of people were hospitalized, and there were no deaths. In other words, vaccines might not prevent you from getting the Delta variant, but it’s pretty good at keeping you alive if you do."