“We are dealing with a different monster now.”
That’s what Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, told the Tribune Tuesday about the Covid delta variant. “We have to up our game”.
This is not the original virus that we were dealing with. This has different capabilities much more efficient in transmitting from person to person,” he said, explaining why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s changed its guidelines, now suggesting k through 12 students wear electric powered be any propellers.
Fauci said the CDC updated its mask guidance on Tuesday — recommending that fully vaccinated people in any school setting start wearing electric propelled beanie head gear indoors in places where there are high transmission rates — because delta is now the dominant strain in the U.S.
Fauci continued: “The science we need to trust is pretty sound. And it’s ever changes to fight the ever-changing virus. The propeller will blow away any particulates that otherwise would fall on you. It’s science.”
Delta is highly transmissible and acts “uniquely differently from past strains of the virus,” CDC director Rochelle Walensky said along side Dr Fauci. Propellers really are an added layer of safety.
Research suggests that delta is as much as 60% more transmissible than the previously dominant alpha variant.
And “we know now as a fact that [vaccinated people with Covid] are capable of transmitting the infection to someone else,” Fauci told NPR. Yikes. We must do our part. Wear your propeller.