It's not just Delta - other coronavirus variants worry scientists, also The Delta variant, along with the Gamma or P.1 variant, have been deemed variants of concern by the CDC – meaning their danger comes from their ability to transmit more easily or cause more severe disease.ĬOVID-19 testing in Lynn Haven, Florida. The CDC has predicted the Delta variant, which was first identified in India, could become the dominant strain in the US. That’s a problem because experts have been warning that emerging variants could cause serious illness for the unvaccinated. He noted that vaccine accessibility and historical mistrust within Black and brown communities are contributing factors to the low vaccination rate in his city, whose population is about 85% Black.Īlabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Wyoming join Mississippi in being among the states with the lowest vaccination rates. Lumumba noted one way to encourage vaccination is “meeting people where they are,” whether that’s in barbershops or churches. “People who have not been to the doctor in many years, and in some instances never, and now we’re trying to encourage them to … go get a shot in their arm.” “If we see people who do not have primary health care physicians and we’re asking them to get vaccinated, we’re asking them to deviate from the norms that they have in every other fashion of their lives,” Lumumba added. In Hinds County, where Jackson is located, 40% of the total population is at least partially vaccinated while 36% is fully inoculated, according to state data. Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba told CNN on Saturday the state is so far behind in vaccinations in part because of “a dynamic of so many individuals who do not have primary health care physicians on a day-to-day basis, and this is another example of how this pandemic is highlighting the disparities in health care.” Mississippi, one of the Southern states where vaccination rates are among the lowest in the country, has fully vaccinated 30% of its total population while 33% has received at least one dose, state health data published Friday shows. Nationally, 65.4% of adults have received at least one dose, with the current pace of vaccinations at 1.2 million doses per day, according to CDC data Sunday.ġ year after the first known US coronavirus death, over 450,000 families will never see a loved one again “This is another reason why those who are unvaccinated should be vaccinated as soon as possible,” Wen said.Īs of Sunday, 45.1% of the total US population was fully vaccinated against Covid-19, while 53.3% had received at least one dose.įourteen states have fully vaccinated more than half of their population, CDC data shows, and 16 states and Washington, DC, have accomplished President Joe Biden’s goal to vaccinate 70% of adults with at least one dose by July 4. She noted that it’s “certain” new variants will develop, which could make vaccines slightly ineffective, but not entirely. If it’s anything that we’ve learned during Covid-19, it’s how much we need to be humble in the face of this virus,” she said.
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While health experts agree full vaccination offers protection against some variants of Covid-19, Wen added that it’s unknown whether a variant resistant to vaccines will emerge. “The problem, though, is that we should really be looking at the numbers for each community instead of looking at the US as a whole because while the US as a whole is doing so much better, and there are pockets of the country that have very high vaccination rates, we also have pockets of the country that are actually undergoing massive surges right now where their hospitals are getting full again,” Wen said. We’re not going to see the massive surges that we saw over the holidays,” said Wen, who is the former health commissioner for Baltimore.
“We certainly have to acknowledge that we have come a long way, and we’re out of the worst of it.
With more than 300 million total vaccine doses administered as of this week, the US has gone through major coronavirus milestones worthy of celebration: From reporting a current seven-day moving average of 13,997 daily new cases this week compared to the peak of 251,834 cases on January 10, to administering an average of more than 3 million vaccine doses per day in April, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.īut there’s still a long way to go, CNN medical analyst Dr. Recent months brought overall fewer cases, hospitalizations and deaths – progress health experts attribute to vaccines. Since then, at least 601,818 Americans have died from Covid-19, according to the most recent data from Johns Hopkins University. The US marks a vaccine milestone, but one expert warns that the coronavirus Delta variant has a worrying impact on patients Brian Wells/Times Herald/USA Today Network Volunteers screen people at a COVID-19 testing clinic on April 4, 2021, at Memorial Stadium in Port Huron, Michigan.
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