Cases of the more contagious variant have doubled in the United States in the past two weeks.
In the United Kingdom, the delta variant overtook the alpha, or B.1.1.7, variant, over two months. Delta cases now make up"well over 95 percent" of new cases in the U.K., Fauci said. The U.S."has followed the U.K." in terms of variants.
In the U.K., children and young adults are driving the surge of delta cases. People ages 20 and younger are not yet eligible for vaccination in the country.Vaccinations are available for anyone ages 12 and up in the U.S., and more than 70 percent of adults 27 and up will have received at least one dose by July Fourth, Jeffrey Zients, the head of the White House Covid-19 response team, said during the briefing.
But rates are lower among young adults ages 18 to 26, he said, and the U.S. will likely fall short of President Joe Biden's goal of partially vaccinating 70 percent of all adults by Independence Day. "With the delta variant now spreading across the country, and infecting younger people worldwide, it's more important than ever that they get vaccinated," Zients said.against the the delta variant."
Data from the U.K. have found that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are 96 percent effective against hospitalization from delta.
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