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Houston Chronicle by Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact Texas Dec. 21, 2020

Fact check: Ted Cruz blasts CDC advisory on travel, mask use for vaccinated people

The claim: “This is a bizarre, lunatic, totalitarian cult. It’s not about vaccines or protecting people’s lives — it is instead profoundly anti-science, and is only focused on absolute (government) control of every aspect of our lives." — Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, on Twitter.

Cruz made the statement in response to guidance urging those vaccinated for COVID-19 to avoid travel and continue wearing masks.

PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire! The emerging vaccines each were placed through months of clinical trials that tested for their efficacy in preventing illness. Their efficacy in preventing transmission was not part of the trials and is not yet known.
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Cruz responded specifically to Dr. Vin Gupta, a lung and intensive care unit doctor who appeared on MSNBC to caution vaccine recipients against abandoning the kinds of preventative measures public health experts have been emphasizing all year.

“This is one of the misperceptions here: just because you get vaccinated with a second dose, it does not mean you should be participating in things like traveling in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic or that you’re liberated from masks,” Gupta told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “Everything still applies until all of us get the two-dose regimen, and we don’t think that’s going to happen until June or July.”

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