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More than 50% of Americans arevaccinated versusCOVID-19 [FeminineBut the average of seven days of daily cases is 741% higher than that of mid-June. And hospitalizations are up 40%. For many, we look like already seen. Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health and the Boss of Dr. Anthony Fauci, appeared onThis weekYesterday to sound a warning: Our chance is now to stop it before being even worse. Read on 5 life economy tips - and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss these Sure sign that you have "Long" Covid and may even know.

"I'm afraid we should not really have happened where we are," Dr. Collins said. "So, in this respect, yes, we fail. We have vaccines that we know how to be very efficient and safe, and yet half of the country is still not totally vaccinated. And about 90 million people do not even have had a dose. We would not even be. Be instead, we are now with this delta thrust if we had been more effective so that everyone benefits from these vaccinations, and now we pay a terrible price because cases rise quickly. "

"Most cases, of course, in unvaccinated people, almost all deaths are unvaccinated people," Collins said. "And these are younger people now, including children, the largest number of children so far throughout the pandemic at the moment are at the hospital, 1,450 children at Covid-19 Hospital . And of course, for their next 12 years, many of them, they could not be vaccinated, but the rest of us who were over 12 years oldcould have done a better job. "

Delta worse for children than previous variants? "We do not have rigorous data to show with certainty that they are, but I certainly hear pediatricians who are worried about this time, the children in the hospital are both more numerous and more seriously sick" , said Collins. "We will have to have better comparisons to be sure. We have evidence that Delta can be more serious for the elderly, and including the elderly middle ages and, twenty years and thirty years, where it seems studies In Singapore and Scotland. And then in Canada that it is a virus that is not just more contagious, but potentially more lethal. "

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Collins is mandates of the PRO vaccine. "I think we should use all the public health tools we can when people die, mortality rates start again," he said. "And you have just gone through the numbers on the number of new cases we see. We are on a very steep Swift from this curve. And we should think of all possible interventions." He continued, speaking of immunization become politicized: "I mean, how did we come here? Why is a mandate on the vaccine or the port of a mask suddenly becomes a statement from your political party, we never had to arrive. Come in America. We can separate them, can not we? We do not really need to be polarized on a virus that kills people. We should do everything we can do lives. And that means getting the vaccine. And that means wearing the mask when you are inside, in a congested space. And if you are not vaccinated, wear it all the time. "

"I would ask that they would think of the masks of how they should be thought of", parents implored with Collins. "This is not a political statement or an invasion of your liberties. It is a medical rescue device and asking for children to wear a mask is uncomfortable, but you know that children are quite resilient. We know that children less than 12 years old are likely to get infected. And if we do not have masks in schools, this virus will spread more widely. This will probably cause epidemics in schools and children will have to return to learning to distance, which is the only thing we really want to prevent that. Type of virtual learning, that children have had to spend over more than a year ago are really bad for their development. We should make every effort to ensure you that they can be back in the class. And the best way to do it is for sure that students are worn by students, by staff, by everyone. It's a small price to pay for power keep children where they must be, to learn. "

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Collins said he was studying the Lambda variant, which came from Peru. "We have a very strong team that examines each new emerging variant to see what would be its effect, in terms of work will be vaccination of vaccine against it? So far, so good. We do not yet have any concerns about Delta or Lambda or one of the others who are in a way that hides there, but we all worry about the day when a variant arises, which is so different from the virus Wuhan original, that, basically, the vaccine has stopped working as well. And we really have to quickly advance with the booster. The best way to prevent this from happening is to reduce the number of infections. Because this how mutant has passed. It is because people are infected with the virus and it copies a little bad, then you get something that is even worse. So, even more so that we should do our best to reduce the wild spread of Delta so that we do not receive something even more dangerous. "

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"If people listen to what has not taken this measure yet it is time. In fact, it is time spent, but it's not too late, but certainly, we will have to face hospitalizations, all kinds of constraints on health care system and unnecessary deaths because of what is already present, But we had to do everything we can to prevent that. And this includes the wearing of masks in places where we can reduce the spread of this very contagious virus ". Then to vaccinate as soon as possible; If you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear a N95facial maskDo not travel, social distance, avoid big crowds, do not go inside with people you are not shelter with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene and protect your life and the lives of others, don 't visit one of these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.