The Delta variant is now dominant in these 4 states, the data show
The experts say that this variant is asked to take care of the whole country.
For nearly two months,Fully vaccinated people In the United States, I was able to come back to living life a bit like before the pandemic. With climbing vaccination rates, disease control and prevention centers (CDC) announced in mid-May that fully vaccinated personsnot requiring more masks Inside or outside, the main state officials to raise not only masked mandates, but to return to cases as usual by also eliminating the social restraints of distancing or capabilities. It seemed like we were on the way of normal this summer, but a new variant of coronavirus begins to become alarms again. The Delta variant has already forced other countries like India and Australia, return to locking and reintegrated restrictions. And now, it spreads quickly to the US.S. and in some states in particular.
CDC DirectorRochelle Walensky, MD, saysHello AmericaJune 18 she was waiting for theDelta variant to become dominant In the United States in the coming months. "It is more transmitted than the alpha variant, or the u.k variant., That we have here," she said. "We have found that it will quickly become the dominant strain in a period of one or two months, and I anticipate that it will happen with the Delta strain." But less than two weeks later, things are already starting to take a ride. As at June 30, CNN confirmed that the delta varianthad been localized In the 50 states, and it is now the dominant Covid tension in four of them.
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Trevor Bedford, PhD, Associate Professor Affiliated to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, confirmed on Twitter on July 1st that theDelta variant is now the dominant strain of Covid In Missouri, Utah, Colorado and Arkansas. It is overcome from the alpha variant formerly dominant in these states in less than four weeks, Bedford said.
According to the BEDFORD data provided,Missouri had the greatest spread Delta variant. In May, 80% of the state cases were caused by the alpha variant, but now, this variant is only behind about 10% of the new cases. The delta variant, on the other hand, was responsible for 30% of cases in May, but it now causes more than 80% of new cases in the state.
That's exactly what experts are worried about in recent weeks. A little more than a week ago, Covid Councilor of the White HouseAnthony Fauci, MD, says that thePrevalence of the Delta variant Quickly double the United States at this point, it accounted for more than 20% of all countries.
"Look at the growing threat of what we are all concerned about: the delta variant," said Fauci during a briefing of the White House of June 22. "The transmissibility is undeniably greater than that of the wild-type SAR-COV-2, as well as alpha variant. It is associated with an increase in the severity of diseases, as evidenced by the risk of hospitalization, compared to alpha . "
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Experts are particularly concerned for unvaccinated individuals when the delta variant spreads. All but one of the states now dominated by the variant of Delta have a part of theLowest vaccination rate in the countryside. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Missouri has fully vaccinated 36.6% of its population, UTAH is fully vaccinated by 34.9% and Arkansas has fully vaccinated. Colorado is the only outlining value with 49.5% of its fully vaccinated population.
"In some countries, the delta variant has become truly very dominant. This has pushed the other variants there. This will happen in our country, the United States, in those of these countries.Unvaccinated people areas"Fauci said in an interview of June 29 with PBS." Once again, that's why we say we're dealing with something we need to take very seriously. It's really a dichotomy. If you are vaccinated, you are good enough, in fact, pretty good shape. If you are not vaccinated, you are at a significant risk. "
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