Between vaccinated and unvaccinated, who is the loser?
The Delta variant accounts for 51.7% of new COVID-19 infections in the United States; while variant B.1.1.7, or alpha, which has dominated for months, now accounts for 28.7% of cases, as explained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ).
The variant was first identified in India, where it is credited with causing an overwhelming surge that brought the country’s numbers to nearly 30 million infections and at least 400,000 deaths. The virus quickly spread to the UK, where it is now the cause of 99 percent of cases. Since then, it has been detected in 104 countries and 50 states in the United States.
This is a more contagious version of the SARS-Cov2 coronavirus, accounting for more than half of new infections in the United States..
Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are increasing rapidly in some states with low vaccination rates such as Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Nevada; and small increases are starting to show in other regions. The curves are also increasing in New York City, and the percentage of positive tests has doubled in recent weeks to just over 1%.
In the last week there have been more than 11,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. About 200 Americans die from this disease every day
The spread of the variant has generated a vigorous new vaccination push from the government of President Joe Biden. Federal officials plan to send medical teams to communities facing outbreaks that seem inevitable. Those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus have little to worry about. But virtually all the available data indicates that vaccines powerfully protect by avoiding serious complications, hospitalizations and deaths caused by all existing variants of the coronavirus.
Vaccines have been available to most Americans for months, but only 48.2% of the country is fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The rate of new vaccinations is declining. Even a single dose of vaccines that require two injections appears to prevent the most severe symptoms, although it is a weaker barrier against symptomatic disease, making second doses an urgent priority.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
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