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HealthDay News – The delta variant of the coronavirus that once crippled India now accounts for 20 percent of infections in the United States, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday.
The percentage of the highly transmissible and potentially more dangerous variant has doubled in the past few weeks, Fauci said at a White House briefing on the virus on Tuesday, CNN reported. “As in [the alpha variant first seen in Britain], we seem to be following the pattern with the delta variant with a doubling time of around two weeks, ”he noted.
Fortunately, Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines appear to be effective against the Delta variant, Fauci said, but the challenge is getting more people to take the vaccines, CNN reported. The Pfizer vaccine was 88 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 symptoms of the Delta variant two weeks after the second dose of the vaccine.
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“If you look at hospital stays, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford AstraZeneca are between 92 and 96 percent effective against hospital stays,” said Fauci.
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