There’s a lot of confusion around the CDC’s new recommendation about wearing masks indoors.

Now even vaccinated people are being asked to mask back up, and that has some people are asking: what gives? If you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 why are you still being told to wear a mask? Let’s connect the dots.

All of the evidence we have shows the vaccines offer strong protection against COVID-19. If you are vaccinated, you have very little risk of hospitalization or death from the virus. Multiple studies show the shots reduce your risk of spreading COVID-19 to someone else.

But that research comes with a major caveat. All of those studies were done before the highly contagious Delta variant. The CDC says more recent data shows vaccinated people with Delta in their systems can spread the virus more easily. #WakeUpCLT #COVID19 #CDC