'I'm really concerned that the evidence is mounting that even natural immunity will not protect you against Delta,' Trump's former Assistant Secretary of Health Brett Giroir said.
viewers on Thursday that they"will get the Delta variant" of the novel coronavirus if they are not vaccinated.in new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. over the past several weeks. While public health officials and doctors continue to assess that vaccinated individuals have substantial protection against the variant—especially against severe cases, hospitalizations and death—they have expressed growing alarm for the unvaccinated.
During a Thursday interview with Fox News, Giroir, the former assistant secretary of health in the Trump administration, raised those concerns as well. He predicted that all unvaccinated Americans would inevitably catch the Delta variant, as it is significantly more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus.
"Let me tell you. If you have not been vaccinated and you have not had COVID before, you will get the Delta variant. This is so infectious that you will get it.
"Anyone who is not vaccinated and who did not have COVID previously, the Delta variant is so contagious that you are going to get it, it is just a matter of time," the former Trump administration official said. He compared the Delta variant to different versions of the flu, pointing out that people have immunity to the flu but still can get infected with new versions each year.
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