The Delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire across the United States, as data shows COVID cases involving the delta variant account for around 20 percent of the nation’s COVID diagnoses every day. As such, U.S. President Joe Biden and the country’s COVID response team will be having their hands full convincing more Americans to roll up their sleeves to protect themselves this weekend, so as to prevent the delta variant from impeding his goal of inoculating more than 70 percent of the country’s adults by July 4.
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Adding new urgency to the United States’ vaccination drive is the newly-discovered delta variant, which now accounts for at least 20 percent of the country’s COVID cases.
So menacing is the variant that CDC’s director wants everyone warned.
“The Delta variant is predicted to be the second most prevalent variant in the United States, and I expect that in the coming weeks, it will eclipse the alpha variant. Any suffering or death from COVID-19 is tragic. With vaccines available across the country, the suffering and loss we are now seeing is nearly entirely avoidable.” Said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
COVID vaccines used in a lot of Western countries are found to be able to offer strong protection against the highly contagious delta variant, first identified in COVID-battered India and is currently spreading in more than 90 other countries.
That’s why Walensky is asking Americans to avail themselves of the country’s vaccination program, so as to protect themselves ahead of the mutant’s spread across the country, and prevent them from falling victim to the deadly delta variant.
Barely two weeks ago, California, just reopened as the nation was seeing a drop in COVID cases. But now, the awful specter of the U.S. reporting hundreds of thousands of COVID deaths every day is looming in the country, with some even saying it has already reared its ugly head.
The mutant strain has forced Britain, where nearly half the population is fully vaccinated, to delay the long-anticipated lifting of COVID restrictions, as cases are doubling every nine days, and are forecast to even quadruple every two weeks.
In light of the recent spike in COVID cases across the globe, the World Health Organisation is now warning that insufficiently immunized populations and a drop in mask use, as well as the lifting of anti-virus measures will only “delay the end of the pandemic.”
Several Australian cities and European countries are in lockdowns as a result of the spread of the delta variant.
Although the United States now has half of its population immunized, the CDC says about 1,000 counties, in which vaccination rates remain sluggish, are the most vulnerable, adding that the spread of the delta variant will only add insult to injury for those counties.
Be that as it may, the CDC insists it is still safe for the fully vaccinated to go mask-free, which stands to reason why COVID vaccines commonly used by most countries in the world can give strong protection against the new variants of COVID.
Still, the delta variant is expected to impede President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating at least 70 percent of America’s adults.
Dedicated to helping the U.S. emerge from COVID’s shadow, Biden and his COVID response team will be having their hands full convincing more Americans to roll up their sleeves this weekend, in an effort to immunise more Americans, and prevent the variant from jeopardising the country’s vaccination drive, which has been devoted to immunising the country’s entire population.
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