The contagious delta variant of Covid-19 took the U.S. by surprise. Now, the White House has a new plan to fight the variant, including booster shots and vaccine mandates. Here's where things stand:
Here's where we stand in the fight against the Delta variant, in the booster shot debate, and how we got here in the first place.
It's more than 60% more transmissible than the original coronavirus. Symptoms from the Delta variant remained largely the same coughing, trouble breathing, suddenly losing your sense of smell or taste. But doctors have been reporting that people infected with the Delta variant have been getting sicker and more quickly than those with the regular coronavirus. Delta also appears to hit younger patients harder than the original strain.
It can overwhelm those circulating antibodies, you get infected, and then you're dependent upon secondary immune cells you and I have talked about like memory B cells and T cells to kick into that and fight that infection to prevent you from getting sick from the infection. But it takes a couple of days for those secondary immune cells to kick in.
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