An emergency room physician weighs in on CDC's relaxed masking, distancing guidelines

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10. I live in rural Virginia.

We have had over 80 new cases and three deaths in the past week with a population under 78,000. Our rate of vaccination is about 36%.

I called our local health department and asked if they knew how many of these cases are unvaccinated people versus vaccinated and they didn’t know. I suggested to her that it might be beneficial to keep that data to 1) Reassure those of us who are vaccinated that we are safe and 2) Perhaps encourage the unvaccinated among us to do the right thing by pointing out that the only sick people are the unvaccinated. She thought it was a good idea and would pass it on to the epidemiologists.

Our middle daughter is pregnant and is awaiting her second vaccine next week. I’m fully vaccinated but don’t want to bring any illness to her and my unborn granddaughter until they both have immunity. I’m wearing a mask in public