Joe Biden announced that “in all likelihood” there will be further restrictions against the coronavirus in the United States

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, warned on Saturday that the US government would introduce new restrictions against the coronavirus in the country given the spread of cases of the delta variant, including infectious ones.

“Presumably”, the president said in comments to CBS News at a time when The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has warned that the delta has caused a “shift” in the “war” on the disease, as described in an internal memorandum accompanied by classified data describing the hypothesis that people vaccinated could transmit it at the same rate as people without inoculation.

The document, first collected by the Washington post, is a slideshow in which you warns that the variant could be more contagious than the viruses that cause Ebola, the common cold, or as contagious as smallpox.

The presentation, which mentions the “Communication challenges” the organization faces regarding the impact of the variant on those vaccinated, was used this week by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, to justify the regulatory change released in recent days by the CDC, which now recommends the use of masks in public spaces in areas of the country with a high number of infections.

This is a turnaround from last May’s CDC advice that fully vaccinated people could leave their masks at home, and further aligns U.S. guidelines with recommendations from the World Health Organization. health (WHO).

The good news is that COVID-19 infection, if it does occur, is much less likely to cause serious illness or death in those vaccinated.

Some conditions make infection more likely in a person who has been vaccinated: more viruses circulating in the community, lower vaccination rates and more highly transmissible variants.

While vaccinated people can be infected with the coronavirus, they can also spread it. Hence the CDC’s recommendation that vaccinated people wear masks in closed public spaces to help stop the transmission of the virus.

The CDC’s recommendation on face mask targets Areas of the United States with more than 50 new infections per 100,000 people or where more than 8% of tests were positive in the previous week. According to the CDC’s own definitions, community transmission “substantial” is 50 to 99 cases of infection per 100,000 people per week, and “high” is 100 or more.

In general terms, The United States has recorded 35 million infections since the start of the pandemic and an estimated 612,000 people have died from the disease. About half of the country’s population, some 164 million people, has already received the full immunization schedule.

Additionally, new European research shows that rRelaxing antiviral measures before the entire population is vaccinated greatly increases the risk of more resistant variants developing.

In the moments when almost the 60% of Europeans have received at least one dose, the authors of the book stressed the need to maintain restrictive measures until all are completely inoculated.

With information from EuropaPress and AFP

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