Pres. Biden calls COVID-19 public health measures announced on Thursday 'sufficient' in managing the omicron variant, adding travelers should continue to wear masks: 'We're going to continue to require the people to have masks on.'
Share to TwitterWith several cases of the omicron variant confirmed in the United States, officials have learned that"many" of those infected are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We've seen omicron in about five states now and we're continuing to do investigations in other states as probable cases emerge.
"We have 90,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day and about 99.9% of them continue to be delta," she said."So we can't lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of what we have here in the United States is delta, and we know how to tackle delta with vaccines, with boosters, with masking and all of our prevention measures we have been using all along."
"I think we really do need to follow the science here and understand how our vaccines are going to work against omicron," she said."It may very well be that our vaccines actually work quite well and continue to work quite well against severe disease, and those are the studies that are ongoing."Dr. Rochelle Walensky discusses what to know about early cases of the new variant discovered in the United States.
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