The next coronavirus mutation could be even worse and more contagious than the Delta variant. This is the new alarm launched by Anthony Fauci. Hence for the virologist the importance of stopping, especially through vaccination, the spread of cases that in America have started to be at least 100 thousand per day.
Fauci reiterated how the recent rise in infections has mainly affected unvaccinated people. “There are still 93 million Americans who can be immunized, but they have not yet done so,” he added.
“If another variant comes along that has just as high transmission capacity and is also much more serious, then we could really be in trouble,” Fauci said in an interview with McClatchy news site, adding that “people who do not they are vaccinated and they mistakenly think it is just about them. But it is not so. also for everyone else. ”
The epidemiologist warned that the vast majority of new infections involve unvaccinated people and explained that the United States is “very lucky” to have vaccines that have resisted the variants, suggesting that this may not be the case if more serious strains appear. reach 100 thousand cases per day. The United States reports a weekly average of 94,000 new infections a day, up 48% from a week ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
