The U.S. government’s leading health officials are actively considering recommending that even those individuals that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 wear face masks in public settings again, as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to spread, Dr. Anthony Fauci has confirmed.
The nation’s largest union for registered nurses, National Nurses United, in a letter on July 12 to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, urged the agency to revive the masking mandate to help protect essential workers. The letter came as the highly transmissible delta variant of COVID was spreading fast across the U.S., especially in states with low vaccination rates.
The CDC’s vaccine tracker is showing that 49.1% of the overall U.S. population is fully vaccinated, a number that is barely budging from day to day. That means they have had two doses of the vaccines developed by Pfizer PFE, +0.37% and German partner BioNTech and Moderna, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine that has been widely used in the U.K. and elsewhere, has not received emergency use authorization in the U.S.
Elsewhere, China recorded 76 new COVID cases on Sunday, the most since January, Reuters reported. The latest cases are being driven by an outbreak in the eastern city of Nanjing, where a new round of mass testing has been launched. Both measures have prompted protests, but President Emmanuel Macron and his government say they are needed to protect vulnerable populations and hospitals as infections rebound and to avoid new lockdowns.
Latest tallies The global tally for the coronavirus-borne illness climbed above 194.3 million on Monday, while the death toll climbed above 4.16 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.India is second by cases at 31.4 million and third by deaths at 420,967, according to its official numbers, which are expected to be undercounted.Mexico has fourth-highest death toll at 238,424 but has recorded just 2.7 million cases, according to its official numbers.
Time to mask up again.
People are really still listening to this guy?
i.e. let’s see how far we can push the envelope again
They still don’t know if they are coming or going. I’m sure science has to be telling them something but they just can’t understand it. By the way now the world has a lot of asymptomatic people out there spreading the “virus”.
The ONLY reason a huge portion of people submitted to getting these shots were to get out of wearing mask.. that’s the hard truth. They are going to be crazy mad.
Absolutely , we will be going back into flu season again soon.
mstepczyk Good
Why where a mask if the southern border is wide open.
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