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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1305984)	6/30/2021 1:39:58 PM
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Yes, you SHOULD look at India. Death rate is 1/7th of ours. But India used Ivermectin so we should ignore them, right? I await your "science based" reply. "However, if people would actually look at the data, they'd realize that the Delta variant is actually less deadly. These headlines are able to gain momentum only because of the absurd public perception that somehow India got hit worse than the rest of the world. In reality, India has one-seventh the death rate per capita of the U.S.; it's just that India got the major winter wave later, when the Western countries were largely done with it, thereby giving the illusion that India somehow suffered worse. Now, the public health Nazis are transferring their first big lie about what happened in India back to the Western world." theblaze.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1305984)	6/30/2021 2:41:22 PM
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CDC Director: Vaccinated People Don’t Need to Wear Masks Amid Delta COVID-19 Variant Fears By Jack Phillips June 30, 2021 Updated: June 30, 2021 biggersmaller Print U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky issued a clarification on the COVID-19 “ Delta” variant, proclaiming that fully vaccinated individuals are protected against the strain and don’t need to wear masks. Some municipalities— including Los Angeles County—and a number of countries as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) have recommended mask-wearing in recent days due to the Delta COVID-19 strain. Such guidance has triggered confusion about whether the virus can affect vaccinated individuals and prompted fears that health officials would reimplement more lockdowns or other measures. Walensky, however, said that the CDC’s recommendation on wearing masks in public hasn’t changed. “If you are vaccinated, you are safe from the variants that are circulating here in the United States,” Walensky told NBC’s “Today” show, adding it was “exactly right” that the agency’s guidance still stipulates that vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks. Officials in Israel and in other areas, meanwhile, have reported a number of so-called “breakthrough” cases involving fully vaccinated people contracting the COVID-19 Delta strain. The strain has prompted new lockdowns in the Asia-Pacific region as well as Israel. In the case of WHO’s guidance, she added, the U.N. health organization is dealing with COVID-19 on a larger scale than the United States, which has a relatively high vaccination rate. “We know that the WHO has to make guidelines and provide information to the world,” Walenksy said. “Right now, we know as we look across the globe that less than 15 percent of people around the world have been vaccinated and many people of those have really only received one dose of a two-dose vaccine. There are places around the world that are surging.” And in response to Los Angeles County issuing recommendations on wearing masks, she didn’t make any specific comments. “We have always said that local policymakers need to make policies for their local environment,” the CDC director said. The media coverage on health officials’ announcements about the Delta strain, meanwhile, has prompted harsh words from lockdown critics. “Don’t let the fearmongers win. New public England study of delta variant shows 44 deaths out of 53,822 (.08%) in unvaccinated group. Hmmm,” wrote Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Twitter. Walensky noted in the interview that there is “less data” on how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine performs against the Delta variant, adding: “Right now we have no information to suggest that you need a second shot after J&J, even with the Delta variant.”