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Should You Be Concerned About New COVID Variant BA.2?

It’s been called “stealth omicron” or “deltacron.” A new subvariant of the COVID-19 virus is making headlines, so we talked to NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres to learn more. He explained how the variant “plagiarizes” from the Omicron and Delta variants that previously caused surges, and why this may not cause a new surge here in the...
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How the Delta Variant is Messing With Our Vaccine Goals

We thought we could control the pandemic with about 70% of the country vaccinated. But with the Delta variant leading to case surges even in highly vaccinated countries, that changes the math. We may need 90% to take the COVID-19 vaccine to really wrangle with this variant, says Alabama epidemiologist Dr. Suzanne Judd.
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When Will I Need a Coronavirus Vaccine Booster Shot?

Surging cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, along with a noticed decline in immunity a few months after the vaccine, are leading to a call for getting a 3rd dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. But it’s still unclear what will be recommended for people who received the Johnson & Johnson shot. Dr. Aditi Nerurkar from Harvard explains...
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Florida Hospitals See More Young People on Ventilators As Delta Variant Sweeps State

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all surging in Florida as the delta variant sweeps through the state that has resisted mask and vaccine mandates. Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association, describes how the variant is “burning through the unvaccinated population” and making previously healthy young people severely ill.
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So, Are People Just Gonna Pretend the Delta Variant Isn't a Thing?

Florida recently recorded its highest one-day COVID-19 total since the start of the pandemic with 21,683 on a random weekend in July. In the words of baseball legend Yogi Berra, 'It’s like deja-vu all over again.'
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Not a ‘Flip-Flop': Fauci Says the Delta Variant Forced the CDC's Mask Shift

The public may be tired of shifting guidance from the CDC about wearing face masks, but Dr. Anthony Fauci says the latest change wasn’t made arbitrarily. Rather, it was forced by the Delta variant. “It isn’t that they decided in a vacuum to flip-flop — the virus changed,” he explained in an interview with LX News Now host Eric Alvarez....
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Fauci Says COVID-Deniers Are Just Like Those Downplaying the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been at the forefront of medical research and public health for decades, but he says there is a new and growing phenomenon of people “who deny reality that’s looking them straight in the face.” And in an interview with LX News Now host Eric Alvarez, he compared those who want to deny the science of COVID-19...
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Vaccines ‘Seem to Work Pretty Well' Against Current Covid-19 Variants

The New York Times’ Apoorva Mandavilli joined NBCLX to discuss how well current vaccines hold up against new variants of the coronavirus.
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Why Did WHO Encourage Mask Use? Am I Safe from the Delta Variant?

The World Health Organization says the Delta variant is so contagious that even vaccinated people ought to wear masks, so the variant doesn’t spread to unvaccinated people. NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres talks about the variant and whether the U.S. would need to reinstitute mask mandates in the face of it.
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