The CDC recently updated its COVID-19 guidance to make the same recommendations for people who have been exposed to COVID-19 regardless of their vaccination status. Some social media users are claiming that the updated guidelines mean that there was never a difference in COVID-19 risk for vaccinated and unvaccinated people and that previous guidelines were misguided.
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Before the dominance of Omicron subvariants, vaccinated people were far better protected than unvaccinated people against contracting and spreading COVID-19. The virus has undergone mutations that make Omicron subvariants significantly more transmissible and better able to evade immunity from vaccines and infection, making the updated guidelines with respect to vaccination status defensible, despite ongoing debate among experts regarding the timing and scope of rolling back public health measures. Continuing to emphasize that vaccinated people are at lower risk than unvaccinated people of severe illness and death from Omicron is recommended. Fact Checking Source(s):
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