As COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the nation, data suggests that people who have been fully vaccinated do not carry the virus or get sick.
Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, confirmed that this information is based on data from a study of vaccinated people, reports NBC Bay Area.
“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that is not just in the clinical trials but it’s also in real world data,” Walensky said.
According to the CDC study, the data included around 4,000 police officers, healthcare workers, firefighters, and other essential works who receive one of the two vaccines between December 14 and March 13. The vaccinated people involved in the study were tested for COVID-19 for 13 weeks to monitor how effective the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were outside of a trial.
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Among the 2,479 people who participated in the study, there were only three COVID-19 infections confirmed.
The tests showed that the risk of getting the virus went down by 90% two weeks or more after they received their second dose. However, just one dose was 80% effective after 14 days.
Of that study, the CDC tracked 994 people who did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and only 161 people tested positive for the virus, and no one died.
The CDC urges Americans across the nation to still social distance and wear face masks.
“We can kind of almost see the end,” Walensky said. “We’re vaccinating so fast … And yet on the other side, I’m watching the cases tick up. I’m watching us have increased numbers of hyper-transmissible variants. I’m watching our travel numbers tick up, and the sense is, I have seen what it looks like to anticipate the oncoming surge. And what I really would hate to have happen is to have another oncoming surge just as we’re reaching towards getting so many more people vaccinated.”
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