- The CDC has done an about face.

It's now doubling down on mask mandates

for fully vaccinated.

So what's going on?

CBN medical reporterLorie Johnson has more.

- That's right, Pat.

Back in May, the CDC saidvaccinated people do not need

to wear masks inside but yesterday,

officials issued an updatesaying some vaccinated people

who get these breakthrough infections

of the Delta variant canbe highly contagious.

Now the CDC is recommendingmasks in public buildings,

in parts of the country withsignificant infection rates.

Yesterday, the agencyalso recommended everyone

in schools mask up, includingstudents and teachers,

regardless of whether they are vaccinated.

President Biden may soonannounce all federal workers

will be required to get vaccinated

or subjected to regular tests

and forced to social distance.

And the Department of Justice

and the Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission weighed in

on private employersissuing vaccine mandates,

saying they are legal, Pat.

- Lorie, are there manybreakthrough infections

of those who've been vaccinated

or is this just a scare tactic?

- Well, Pat, this issue hashit really close to home.

I have two good friends

who just very recently,

fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine,

recently came down withterrible COVID-19 infections.

In fact, one of them isstill at home in bed.

And so these are people who are my age.

So not old, don't say anything.

And one of them is actually a physician

and one of the healthiest people I know.

Neither one of them are overweight.

The doctor I was telling you about,

he lives in an area wherevaccines are very high,

caseloads are very low.

And both of these guys really suffered.

Now again, neither one of 'emhad to go to the hospital.

So we know that people who are vaccinated

are, at this point, almostcompletely protected

against going to thehospital or from dying.

But we saw those lawmakers from Texas,

the one who chartered a plane up to DC.

They were all fully vaccinated.

Six of 'em tested positive for COVID-19.

We see over at the Olympics,

all these fully vaccinated athletes

testing positive for COVID-19.

Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary

is being very cagey about how many people

in the White House whoare fully vaccinated

have tested positive.

- There's the Pfizer, there's the J&J

and the Moderna.

Are any of them moreeffective than the others?

- Well, we really need more data on this.

And so what we know so far

is an NYC study showed the J&J vaccine

is only 38% effective

against the Delta variant.

Now, that study hasnot been peer reviewed.

There's an Israeli study recently out

that shows the Pfizervaccine is only 40% effective

against the Delta variant.

Two weeks ago, an Israeli studyshowed it was 68% effective.

And then there's a UK studythat shows the Pfizer vaccine

is 88% effective againstthe Delta variant.

So some of these studies aresort of all over the map.

The CDC really needs to investigate

and pin down exactly what the efficacy is

for these three different vaccines here

in the United States.