Not saying I'm not about to start wearing a mask while working again, but the vaccine IS doing what it was designed to do and the Provincetown outbreak is the best evidence yet, despite also being so sobering.

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Scientists said the Provincetown outbreak and other recent data on breakthrough infections make clear that the vaccines do work, as hoped, against severe illness and death, but do not offer blanket protection against any chance of infection. Only a handful of people in the outbreak were hospitalized, but four of them were fully vaccinated.

A CDC internal document obtained by The Washington Post estimated that 35,000 vaccinated people a week in the United States are having symptomatic breakthrough infections out of a vaccinated population of more than 162 million. {Personal note: the math on that, btw, is .0216%, or 216 out of every 1,000,000 people} Vaccination coverage is higher than average in Massachusetts, with nearly 70 percent of residents fully vaccinated.

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Provincetown is famous for its party scene and is at the tip of Cape Cod in a festive July 4 environment that could have, and did, prove ideal for explosive spread of the more contagious delta variant.

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“The good news here: If you’re vaccinated, refrain from large group gatherings and mask up, chances are good you’ll be okay. This is not 2020. But we’re not out of the woods.”




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