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There isn't a teacher around that is not worried that something might go sideways this summer. In addition to the variant impacting teens, I saw this article the other day that made me clench as well...Not to sound too alarming, but we may be facing another breed of a virus monster between July and the Fall. I only hope that our population takes this seriously enough to continue practicing safe distancing and masks if around a crowd. Vaccines may not be enough to protect folks from the Delta Variant. Good luck to all.
Fauci warns of COVID-19 Delta variant now spreading rapidly in U.K.: ‘We cannot let that happen in the United States’
A highly transmissible new strain of the coronavirus has taken hold in the U.K., imperiling plans to fully reopen the country on June 21. Public health officials in the United States are grappling with the possibility that a similar regression could take place here.news.yahoo.com
The Delta variant accounts for only about 6 percent of cases in the United States, according to genomic sequencing studies. But that could change rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top public health adviser to President Biden, warned during a Tuesday briefing of the White House pandemic response team.
The emergence of the Delta variant presents a new challenge because, as University of Edinburgh immunologist Eleanor Riley told the Financial Times, vaccines provide “somewhat less protection against infection with the Delta variant.” Even fully vaccinated people appear to develop fewer neutralizing antibodies against the Delta strain than for other variants.
Fauci also said in Tuesday’s briefing that the new variant may be “associated with increased disease severity” compared with the coronavirus wild type.
"That’s a relatively small number of people compared with the millions in the region who have been fully immunized. The Bay Area has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, led by Marin and San Francisco counties, where 71% and 64% percent of people are fully vaccinated, respectively. But pockets of undervaccination and dangerous new variants are both factors that could lead to a resurgence of COVID-19 even in well-protected areas."
Many Bay Area residents have skipped their second vaccine shot. The delta variant makes that risky
Hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents have skipped their second dose of coronavirus...
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