CDC director: Covid variants could fuel ‘another avoidable surge’ — here’s what that means for you

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CDC director: Covid variants could fuel ‘another avoidable surge’ — here’s what that means for you (via CNBCMakeIt)

Early data suggests that thisA concern is that the New York City mutation, called B.1.526, could cause reinfection in people who have already had Covid, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said during an interview with

Sunday. Citing surging cases in "pockets of New York City," Gottlieb said that it's too soon to tell whether people are being reinfected or if people who have yet to be vaccinated are getting infected.New variants drive home the importance of safety measures, even as people get vaccinated. "The one thing you want to do is to make sure you do not allow that to continue to spread," Fauci told CBS' "The ways to do that include getting vaccinated and maintaining the public health measures that have been in place for over a year, such as social distancing, mask-wearing and practicing hand hygiene. "That's what you can do to prevent the spread of a worrisome variant," Fauci said.

This holds true even if you're already fully vaccinated, because although early data suggests that the , they could be less effective against others. Plus, it's still unclear the effect that vaccines will have against transmission of the virus.

 

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