While prevalence of the variant, also known as B.1.617.2, is still low in the U.S., its prevalence has doubled since last week, rising from 3% to 6%, according to a report from HHS.
"Get vaccinated," he added."Particularly if you’ve had your first dose, make sure you get that second dose. And for those who have been not vaccinated yet, please get vaccinated."A health worker takes a swab sample from a laborer at a construction site in New Delhi, India, on June 10, 2021.
Health officials in the U.K. went further, issuing a risk assessment in early June, indicating that they believe the delta variant is more easily spread from person to person than the alpha variant, which was first detected in the U.K. and spread rapidly there until the delta variant took over.,"it is highly likely that delta is significantly more transmissible than alpha."
Vincent Racaniello, a microbiology and immunology professor at Columbia University, argued that we should interpret the infectiousness of the delta variant cautiously. The variant's rapid rise also has to do with human behavior and relaxed restrictions and shouldn't be strictly attributed to the virus being more transmissible.
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