Rochelle Walensky on Friday and questioned her about the new guidance on masks. On Tuesday Walensky announced the new CDC recommendation that fully vaccinated people should mask up in public, indoor spaces in areas with “high transmission.” Baier brought up the stats on how out of millions and millions of people who have been vaccinated, a considerably low percentage of breakthrough infections and deaths have been reported. He asked Walensky, “Are the vaccinated people wearing the masks to protect the unvaccinated people or are they protecting the vaccinated people?” “If you are vaccinated, when you are vaccinated, you are protected from severe disease and death,” she said. “When we removed the masks in May for the vaccinated people, the alpha variant was the predominant variant. And we had data to suggest at the time if you were infected as a breakthrough case that you couldn’t give disease — you couldn’t give alpha disease to someone else.”