{"id":80302,"date":"2021-08-24T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80302"},"modified":"2021-08-24T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:26:27","slug":"government-public-health-organs-flying-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80302","title":{"rendered":"Government Public Health Organs \u2018Flying Blind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government \u2018Flying Blind\u2019 on Breakthrough Infections, as COVID Infections Among Fully Vaccinated Soar<\/h1>\n

The CDC\u2019s decision to stop tracking COVID in vaccinated people, unless they are hospitalized or die, means we have no full understanding on how the Delta variant spreads among the nearly 200 million partially or fully vaccinated Americans, or on how many are getting sick.<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Jenny Deam & Bianca Fortis<\/p>\n

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Meggan Ingram was fully vaccinated when she tested positive for COVID-19<\/a> early this month. The 37-year-old\u2019s fever had spiked to 103 and her breath was coming in ragged bursts when an ambulance rushed her to an emergency room in Pasco, Washington, on Aug. 10. For three hours she was given oxygen and intravenous steroids, but she was ultimately sent home without being admitted.<\/p>\n

Seven people in her house have now tested positive. Five were fully vaccinated and two of the children are too young to get a vaccine<\/p>\n

As the pandemic enters a critical new phase, public health authorities continue to lack data on crucial questions, just as they did when COVID-19 first tore through the U.S. in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n

Today there remains no full understanding on how the aggressively contagious Delta variant<\/a> spreads among the nearly 200 million partially or fully vaccinated Americans like Ingram, or on how many are getting sick.<\/p>\n

The nation is flying blind yet again, critics say, because on May 1<\/a> of this year \u2014 as the new variant found a foothold in the U.S. \u2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mostly stopped tracking COVID-19 in vaccinated people, also known as breakthrough cases<\/a>, unless the illness was severe enough to cause hospitalization or death.<\/p>\n