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COVID cases have has dropped dramatically during the United States in recent months, but people are always infected in the country, whether unaccinated or rarebreakthrough infection. Data from disease control and prevention centers (CDC) show that there were between 7,000 and 13,000New cases every day in the country over the last week. Now, researchers see a similarity among many currently infected patients. According to new data, 1 in 5 people in the United States infected with COVID now have the Delta variant.

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At a press briefing at the White House on June 22, Counselor CovidAnthony Fauci, MD,revealed that the United States Follows a "similar pattern with the delta variant" that the U.K. To. Recent public health data England revealed that99% of cases In the country, the result of the Delta variant, which is native to India.

Fauci says the United States is directed in the same direction. According to the infectious disease expert, 20.6% of people with COVID in the United States are now infected with the Delta variant. It is more than double the percentage that was observed two weeks ago on June 5th, when the variant represented only 9.9% of cases. And two weeks before that, May 22, only 2.7% of cases in the United States were caused by the Delta variant, by falcion.

"Similar to the situation in the U.K., Delta's variant is currently the biggest threat of the USS at our attempt to eliminate Covid-19," said Fauci.

Deterum, the transmissibility of the Delta variant is "undoubtedly larger" than the original stump of Covid and the current romantic variant, alpha. "It is associated with an increase in the severity of diseases, as evidenced by the risk of hospitalization compared to Alpha," said Fauci.

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There is good news, though. "Our vaccines are effective against the Delta variant," said Fuci. According to the infectious disease expert, the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at 88% against the Delta in terms of symptomatic disease and 92% effective against hospitalizations two weeks after the second dose.

"We have the tools, so let's use them and crush the epidemic," said Façi, urging those who are in the United States to get vaccinated. According to the CDC, only 45.3% of US adults arefully vaccinated.

"We know that our vaccines work against [the delta] variant. However, this variant represents a set of mutations that can lead to future mutations that escape our vaccine. And that is why it is more important than ever to be vaccinated Now, to stop the chain of infection, the chain of mutations that can lead to a more dangerous variant, "director of the CDCRochelle Walensky, MD, says during the same briefing.

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