Are the unvaccinated still a danger to the rest of us?
LOS ANGELES — For almost two years, COVID-19 vaccine holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements, of social-media shaming and truth campaigns. They've missed weddings, birthday celebrations and recitals, and even forfeited high-stakes athletic competitions. Until last month, they were barred from entering the United States and more than 100 other countries.
Now the unvaccinated are suddenly back in the mix. They're dining in restaurants, rocking out at music festivals and filling the stands at sporting venues. They mingle freely in places where they used to be shunned for fear they'd seed superspreader events.
It's as if they're no longer hazardous to the rest of us. Or are they?
"Clearly, the unvaccinated are a, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University. As recently as August, their risk of dying of COVID-19 was than for people who were fully vaccinated and eight times higher than for people who were vaccinated and boosted, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
