the recent Provincetown outbreak.Of those individuals who were living in Massachusetts, 74 percent were vaccinated but reported experiencing symptoms, according to ABC News.Vaccinated people who do get COVID-19 are “breakthrough infections.”The Cape Cod beach town saw a rise in COVID cases after the July 4 holiday weekend.
The summer is high season for Provincetown, a favorite destination for LGBTQ+ people, with hundreds packing bars, restaurants, and outdoor events like tea dances.Health officials had thought that it was a rarity for vaccinated people to get COVID-19.
And even if they were infected with the novel coronavirus, then they couldn’t really spread it to others. It was that assumption, ABC News reported, that made the CDC loosen.