PhD. Anthony Fauci The warning states that unless vaccination increases significantly, there may be a “worse” COVID-19 strain than the Delta variant.
Chief Medical Advisor to President Fauci Joe Biden The long-term head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) told ABCGeorge Stephanopoulos believes that unless vaccination rates increase in the future Good Morning America Interview on Thursday.
“That will happen, George, if we can’t control community transmission well, that’s why my colleagues and I say over and over again that it is very important to get as many people as possible vaccinated,” Fauci said. “Some people say,’I don’t want to be vaccinated because I am myself, I will worry about me, and I will not have any influence on other people.’ This is not the case. Because when people are not vaccinated after being vaccinated, the virus will be Spread in the community.”
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“As long as the virus continues to spread, you have enough opportunities to mutate,” he added. “Sooner or later you will get another variant. And this variant may be worse in some respects than the already very difficult variant we are dealing with now. This is because you want to completely suppress the spread of the virus in the community.”
The Delta variant has been driving the surge of COVID-19 across the country this summer. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average daily number of new cases has been steadily increasing, from approximately 9,000 new cases in mid-June to approximately 90,000 new cases currently.CDC). CDC data shows that in the last two weeks of July, Delta variants accounted for more than 93% of all COVID-19 cases, an increase of approximately three times from six weeks ago.
Delta variants are more contagious than past strains and show greater resistance to current vaccines, although these vaccines can still provide some protection against the virus and significantly reduce the risk of serious illness or death in the infected person opportunity. Approximately 50% of the total U.S. population has been vaccinated against COVID-19, while slightly more than 58% have received at least one dose of the vaccine.Although new vaccinations stopped with the advent of summer, they have Recently increasing, Especially in states that have experienced the most surge.
The CDC predicts that in the next four weeks, the number of new COVID-19 cases per week will approximately double, from approximately 541,000 to more than 1 million. The estimated number of deaths per week — the vast majority of those who have not been vaccinated — will also increase, from nearly 2,400 to more than 4,300. The weekly new cases reached a peak of over 1.7 million in mid-January, when relatively few people were vaccinated, while the weekly death toll reached a high of more than 24,800.
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