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I wonder if Hospitals didn’t plan or prepare for having the same or worse influx of Covid patients due to the fact that the vaccine was supposed to stop transmission. Back in March, the CDC and Biden mentioned that the data (at that time, pre delta) was stopping transmission of the virus. Considering that more than 70% of adults have taken the vaccine, it seems to me that the hope was that what they budgeted and planned for was enough.
I also know school boards planned with this in mind - as the quarantine rules did not apply to vaccinated teachers in close contact to positive covid teachers. Non vaccinated teachers have to quarantine at home for 10 days while vaccinated teachers can continue in the building. Same for vaccinated students (This is terribly outdated but still a policy at my wife’s school as well as my sons HS
Delta really screwed up that planning and in July the cdc started to mention that transmission was the same and not stopped.
I think we need to stop planning / budgeting like we have this under control.
And our policies need to change based on the latest data that we have.
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