Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that, even though more data is emerging showing that people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine are less likely to become reinfected and, even if they do, they probably won’t infect others, the data is not yet robust enough to support rolling back recommendations on mask-wearing by those who’ve been vaccinated.
Fauci made the remarks in a March 18 interview on CNN, responding to questions about a tense exchange he had at a Senate hearing earlier in the day with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about mask-wearing. Paul claimed Fauci’s recommendations to continue to wear masks even for people who have already been infected or have taken the vaccine and so have antibodies against COVID-19, amount to “theater.”
