Israel’s aggressive vaccination program has kept cases and deaths low. But new cases jumped to 200 on Thursday, up from 10 cases a day for much of the month. At the peak of the nation’s outbreak in January, Israel was recording about 10,000 daily cases.are currently among unvaccinated people.warned that the delta variant will soon be the dominant form of the coronavirus in the U.S., but he emphasized that the danger is to those not yet vaccinated.
. “They’ve got to start paying attention to it now because if they’re unvaccinated, they’re at risk.” The delta variant, first found in India, contributed to an outbreak that killed hundreds of thousands of people. It currently makes up about 20% of newly diagnosed coronavirus cases in the U.S. The delta strain is both more transmissible and also linked to more more severe disease than the current alpha strain that is dominant in America.
If the delta variant is allowed to spread through unvaccinated people, there’s not only a heightened risk of severe illness but also a chance it yet another deadly new variant that could be less affected or even unaffected by current vaccines, experts warn.“The delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Fauci said.Do your