Mon Aug 2, 2021 – 9:25 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C., (LifeSiteNews) – Biden administration Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested last week that vaccinated Americans continue wearing masks as an “extra step” to prevent bringing COVID-19 back home to their children, despite evidence that masks were largely ineffective at containing COVID-19.
“So the people that we’re most concerned about are the unvaccinated,” Murthy told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last Wednesday, Fox News reports. “For example, if you happen to have a lot of interaction with folks who are unvaccinated, let’s say you’re a parent like me who has young children at home who are not vaccinated, that’s a circumstance where we’re being extra cautious and wearing that mask even if you’re fully vaccinated, wearing it outside, when you’re in indoor public locations, is an extra step to protecting those at home.”
“I want to emphasize though that if you are vaccinated the likelihood of having a breakthrough infection is still low because, again, the vaccines are working to help prevent infection, particularly serious infection,” he continued. “But in the unusual event that a breakthrough does happen, we know transmission can take place. So that’s why, especially when you
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