Posted on 06/22/2021 2:54:01 PM PDT by RandFan
The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is the greatest threat to the United States’ attempt to eradicate COVID-19, White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.
During a White House coronavirus briefing, the head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said the variant now makes up more than 20 percent of all new cases in the U.S., a significant increase from nearly 10 percent two weeks ago.
The delta variant, first identified in India, recently became the dominant strain in the United Kingdom, surpassing the alpha variant first discovered in the U.K. in fall. The strain makes up more than 90 percent of new cases and delayed the U.K.'s scheduled reopening.
“Similar to the situation in the U.K., the delta variant is currently the greatest threat to the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Fauci said Tuesday.
“The transmissibility is unquestionably greater than the wild type SARS-CoV-2 as well as the alpha variant. It is associated with an increased disease severity as reflected by hospitalization risk,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
So the left has mini-Mussolini warming up to hit us with the next round of COVID-justified fascism. Not gonna go as they planned this time around.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Hysterias arise quickly but die slowly.
Deploy troops to ensure lockdowns are adhered to. Uh, not so much.
Mr. Fauxi’s opinion ceased to matter the second the two weeks of “flattening the curve” ended in the spring of 2020.
Is there any legal way to get rid of this pathological liar?
Other than that it is more transmissable, the info on Delta is very unclear.
Typical of Fauci and the media to exaggerate the risks.
No wonder no one trusts them.
Pfizer & Moderna are apparently effective against the “Delta variant”:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03693-y
When the rest of the world (with more than an 90 IQ) just want this filth-borne clotpole to just go away.
The “delta variant “ is non existent. They just keep coming up with new “scary” names to keep the gravy train/fear factor chugging along.
Flu no longer exists thanks to covid.
This guy and his fairy tales are really getting old.....
No one could see progressives needing more fear to persuade folks to mask up, get a jab that is not properly vetted and social distance - especially at church. Fear always leads to tyranny. Look at the politicians and ilk that use it.
All part of the plan mein FReund....all part of the plan.
There appears to be evidence that folks who had the vaccines are more likely to die from delta than folks who were not vaccinated..
If true the Antibody-dependent Enhancement fears may be coming true
Viruses are never "eradicated." For example, the famous 1918 flu virus is still floating around out there.
They're just once again moving the goalposts from "containing the outbreak" to "eradicating the virus."
Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
Hysteric.] (Med.)
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
paroxism or fits.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
throat. The affection presents the most varied
symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
alone. Hysteric
Fauxi speaks with forked tongue. This snake in the grass can slither back to the pile of moose poop he came from.
You're past your useful shelf life. Please be quiet.
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