Vaccine 'Obstinance' Fueling Delta Variant US Spread, In 111 Countries; Mutations Evading Vaccines?
MSN/LA Times, July 28, 2021. - Ed.
The Delta variant crept into Americans’ consciousness through a distant haze of funeral pyres. But now that the coronavirus strain first detected in India has burst upon communities across the U.S., it has taken on a distinctly American look and feel. In Giddings, Texas, it's 147 infections that roared through attendees of a church ministry camp. In Clark County, Nev., it's a wave of close to 7,000 cases that sidelined 3 barbers over the July 4 weekend. In Grand Junction, Colo., it's the invisible force behind outbreaks at a country music festival, church services, and a carnival in a mall parking lot. The Delta variant claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl in May and has maxed out capacity at the county’s 2 hospitals.
Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that Delta represents 58% of all new cases in the U.S. In some places, particularly in the Midwest and upper mountain states, it has almost completely overtaken other coronavirus strains in just 2 months. Early research suggested it might drive up hospitalizations, though the CDC has not found evidence to back this up.
Still, Dr. Mike Ryan, who leads the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program, called it "faster" and "fitter" than any strain that has come before it, and it's now fueling outbreaks and deaths in at least 111 countries. The Delta variant has surged with terrifying speed and strength in Greene County, Mo., since it was first detected there in May. Before Delta, COVID-19 hospitalizations hovered at 34. On June 21, 155 patients were in the county’s hospitals — a number not seen since the nationwide surge of COVID-19 cases in January..
The places being overrun by Delta share something uniquely American: Despite overflowing supply of vaccines and strong evidence that they protect against the new variant, large numbers of residents have declined to inoculate themselves or their adolescent children. Indeed, 93% of the U.S. counties with the highest rates of new infections have vaccination rates below 40%, according to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Many of these counties are strongholds of the Delta variant, she added...
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* Dr. Emanuel On Mutations Evading Vaccines: 'It Would Be Very Problematic', July 28, 2021. MSNBC. Former Biden transition Covid-19 advisory board member, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the CDC's new guidance recommending indoor mask use in areas with high coronavirus transmission rates, & the possibility of mutations evading vaccine effectiveness.
Savannah Mayor Van Johnson explains why he reinstated a mask mandate in his city, and NBC's Shaq Brewster, Heidi Przybyla, and Geoff Bennett report from across the country with the latest on the pandemic.
- Dangers of the unvaccinated- stronger and new Covid variants.
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