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These are the US outbreaks most at risk as the delta variant spreads

2021-06-28T20:38:12.282Z


The delta variant, which is believed to be more communicable and dangerous than others, is likely to break out in some communities in the US.


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The delta variant, a strain of the new coronavirus believed to be more transmissible and dangerous than others, is likely to break out in some US communities, a health expert told "Face the Nation" of CBS.

"It's not going to be that widespread," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told the station on Sunday.

«It is going to hyper-regionalize.

There are certain parts of the country where they are going to have very dense outbreaks ”.

Those foci will be those with low vaccination rates and low rates of prior infection, Gottlieb said, as in many rural and southern communities.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 46.1% of the total US population has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Wyoming are among the states with the lowest vaccination rates, with less than 35% of their population fully vaccinated.

The national figure is far from the 70 to 85% of the population that experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, estimated would likely need to become immune through a vaccine or previous infection to control the spread of the virus, and with the rates of vaccination declining, some officials worry.

The United States will not reach that threshold.

To anticipate a possible outbreak, Gottlieb recommended that governors accumulate health care resources in vulnerable communities and that leaders adopt a grassroots vaccination campaign in the fall.

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"The people that Tony Fauci, or the Director General of Health, or myself, we are going to convince that they should be vaccinated, they are probably already vaccinated," he noted.

"We need to put vaccines in the hands of doctors, make it easier for them to supply vaccines in their offices."

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Although the vaccination rate may be declining, Gottlieb said he is optimistic that some unvaccinated Americans will soon make the decision to get vaccinated when they return to work and school in the fall.

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In Arkansas, where only 33.9% of residents are fully vaccinated, Governor Asa Hutchinson encourages residents to get vaccinated and prepares contingency plans to deal with a possible outbreak.

Along with low vaccination rates, Arkansas is experiencing large numbers of hospitalizations, Hutchinson told CBS.

“We have to make sure we do everything we can to spread the word, which we have done.

We have used incentives that have not been very successful.

Obviously, we have done marketing for our vaccines.

We are educating, doing everything we can.

And up to 50% of adults are already vaccinated, but we have to make it higher.

We're doing everything we can to encourage that, "Governor John Dickerson told CBS Sunday morning in an interview.

The state offered incentives ranging from US $ 1 million prizes to US $ 20 scratch-and-win prizes and US $ 21 certificates with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which could be exchanged for a fishing license or a license. hunting / fishing.

More than $ 19 million in cash prizes were offered as incentives, a lottery official told CNN last month.

States like Arkansas hope to avoid the strain on Missouri's health care systems, as many hospitals have not fully recovered from previous covid-19 spikes.

"Both hospitals here in the city are overloaded," said Erik Frederick, administrative director of Mercy Hospital Springfield in Springfield, Missouri, last week.

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Despite the increasing number of hospitalizations, Hutchinson said he does not believe that strict limitations are needed again to prevent the spread of the virus because people are more informed about how they should act.

However, he did not rule out imposing restrictions.

People know what to do.

They are instructed and we have to count on their individual responsibility to do the right thing, ”he said.

Still, Hutchinson said he is concerned about a winter facing the delta variant.

And when it comes to increasing the urgency to get vaccinated, he said, "if incentives don't work, reality does."

Health Experts Ask: Do All Vaccines Provide Adequate Protection Against Variants?

Fortunately, the evidence so far points to the United States being equipped with powerful tools to guard against the spread of the Delta variant.

The UK is about a month or two ahead of the US when it comes to the spread of the delta variant, Gottlieb told CBS.

That means the US has some useful data to make predictions before a possible outbreak.

From that data, health experts estimate that Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines are about 90% effective in preventing disease and 94% effective against serious illnesses and hospitalizations of the delta variant, said the CNN medical analyst. Dr. Jonathan Reiner.

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"The problem is that we do not have the same data for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the United States," he added.

Although about 12 million people have received the single-dose vaccine, health experts do not yet have data on how it protects against the delta variant.

Reiner said he hopes the CDC will soon answer questions about Johnson & Johnson's effectiveness and what those who received that vaccine should do to protect themselves against the variant.

"We have two very effective vaccines against the delta variant, and if the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is significantly less effective, we should stop using it," Reiner told CNN.

CNN's Lauren Mascarenhas and Nicky Robertson contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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