Mask Usage After a Vaccine Does Not Mean Vaccines Are Ineffective

Last September, CDC Director Robert Redfield testified before a Senate subcommittee to address the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. During the discussion he called face masks our “best defense,” and said, “I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine, because it may be 70%. And if I don’t get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me.” Redfield’s comments continue to be taken out of context, and misinterpreted today.