The White House’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that fully vaccinated people should consider wearing a mask indoors as a preventive measure against the highly contagious delta variant in the United States.
Fauci said: “Even when vaccinating indoors, if you want to be safer, especially in crowded places, you may want to consider wearing a mask.” Tell CNBC on Wednesday.
High vaccination rates make people hope that life will return to normal before the long-awaited pandemic, but COVID-19 cases are on the rise with the new Delta variant. Now, Americans are beginning to see summer when new masks are recommended.
“It is recommended that you wear a mask when you are indoors, because the dynamic level of the virus in the community is high,” Fauci said.
Several places from California to Massachusetts Residents have been advised to wear masks in public indoor environments, regardless of their vaccination status.
Like Dr. Fauci’s advice on Wednesday, these new state measures are preemptive steps to avoid strict pandemic guidelines.
In early May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated COVID guidelines, stating that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks or maintain social distancing. These guidelines are changing as more information about the efficacy of vaccines against delta variants is released and vaccination rates decline.
The director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Varensky, told lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the agency is actively reviewing its masks and other public health guidelines as the virus and pandemic develop.
“A lot has changed since May,” Varensky testified. “We now have a variant circulating in this country. At that time it was 3% (of new cases) and now it is 83% and more spread. “
The number of COVID infections in the United States has risen again after falling for a few months. New cases have jumped 55% since last week, and an average of 37,000 new cases have been added every day in the past 7 days. CNBC analysis.
In most states, more than 97% Of new Covid-related hospitalized patients are those who have not been vaccinated.
Currently, there are 10 states and territories Statewide order to wear masks, Including California, Connecticut, Washington DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Puerto Rico and Washington.
