Not vaccinated? Here’s how you could kill someone’s father

The leaked CDC document that said vaccinated people spread the delta variant as readily as the unvaccinated helped send a misleading message that quickly became ammunition for vaccine skeptics.

A health care worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the COVID-19 ICU unit at a hospital in Joplin, Missouri. | BLOOMBERG

By Faye Flam
Bloomberg

Aug 11, 2021

Misinformation, or even mere scientific confusion, can cause a lot of trouble when it appears to come out of the Centers for Disease Control.

That is what happened when a leaked CDC document helped send a misleading message that vaccinated people spread the new delta variant as readily as the unvaccinated.

This nugget quickly became ammunition for vaccine skeptics and was used against people like Art Krieg, a rheumatologist and biotech founder who has been passionate about promoting vaccines — even more so after his vaccinated 90-year-old father died on July 30 from COVID-19.

So what are the facts? The scientific consensus holds that vaccines cut down on both illness and asymptomatic "casesu201d and so make the world safer.

Not vaccinated? Here’s how you could kill someone’s father

The leaked CDC document that said vaccinated people spread the delta variant as readily as the unvaccinated helped send a misleading message that quickly became ammunition for vaccine skeptics.

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