Virologist warns that the Delta variant is cause for concern following an outbreak in Houston, Texas. Delta is said to be the most transmissible variant so far.
A virologist from Texas A&M University warned that the COVID-19 Delta variant should be a"wake-up call to communities," to prove the success of vaccines and the risks that COVID-19 still poses, as Houston faces an outbreak of the contagious variant.
"COVID isn't ever gone until it's completely gone," Neuman said."And I think we've made the mistake of assuming that the virus would go away or assuming that the virus wouldn't affect children....We keep stumbling into the same mistakes over and over, and that is not a way out of COVID-19." "We have a pocket of people who are unvaccinated or who have not gotten infected, and they are totally vulnerable to this infection," Keiser said."And it is spreading incredibly fast."
Dr. Rebecca Fischer, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at Texas A&M University's School of Public Health, told the Tribune that the Delta variant is the most transmissible so far. Keiser said that the outbreak might have been prevented if more of the people that tested positive were vaccinated.