Dr. Celine Gounder explains why it's important to have a vaccinated workforce when employers are considering a return to the office.
against Covid-19 as a condition for admission. The announcement comes less than a week after the governor issued the same requirement for all state employees.and whether or not it is impacting them differently than other variants. The NYU epidemiologist explained that the delta variant is different, and therefore impacting children more.
"The levels of virus in people who are infected are 1,000 times higher in their nose and in their throat, than they would have been with the early strains of the virus," Gounder said. "So if you imagine that there's so much more virus in the body, even if a child maybe early in the pandemic wouldn't have had a severe infection, now with that much more virus, we're seeing kids getting sick.
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