New Mask Use Guidelines Expected in NYC Amid Concerns of Rising COVID Cases in U.S. – Telemundo New York (47)

NEW YORK – Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that there is more “pain and suffering” on the horizon as COVID-19 cases rise again and officials plead with uninoculated Americans to get vaccinated.

Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, also said he does not anticipate additional closures in the US because he believes there are enough people vaccinated to prevent a recurrence last winter.

However, he said there are not enough vaccines to “squash the outbreak” at this time.

Fauci’s warning comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will change course to recommend that even vaccinated people go back to wearing face masks indoors in parts of the US. where the delta variant fuels the surge in infections. With the change, federal health officials have cited studies showing that vaccinated people can transmit the virus to other people.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to unveil an updated mask guide for fully vaccinated people beginning Monday. The State is seeing highs of almost three months in terms of daily COVID cases as the prevalence of the delta variant increases. Meanwhile, the list of Olympians testing positive for COVID continues to grow.

Most new infections in the US continue to occur among unvaccinated people. So-called progressive infections can occur in vaccinated people, and although the vast majority of them cause mild symptoms or no symptoms, research shows that they can carry about the same amount of coronavirus as those who did not receive the injections.

“So, we are not looking for, I think, a blockage, but we are looking for some pain and suffering in the future because we are seeing the cases increase, which is the reason we keep saying over and over again, the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening, “said Fauci in”This Week”From ABC.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University as of July 30, the seven-day moving average of daily new cases in the US increased from 30,887 on July 16 to 77,827 on July 30. The nation’s seven-day moving average for new daily deaths increased more than the same period from 253 on July 16 to 358 on July 30, although death reports are generally delayed weeks after infections and even longer after hospitalizations.

Currently, 58% of Americans 12 and older are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC’s data tracker.

However, people are “getting the message” and more are rolling up their sleeves amid the threat of the delta variant, according to the director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Francis Collins said in “State of the Union“from CNN that vaccinations increased 56% in the United States in the last two weeks.

Louisiana, which has the highest number of new cases per capita among the states in the past 14 days, has tripled vaccinations during that period, Collins said.

“That is what must desperately happen if we want this delta variant back in place, because right now it’s having a big party in the middle of the country,” Collins said.

Collins also said that even with the prevalence of the delta variant, the injections are working “extremely well” and reducing a person’s risk of serious illness and hospitalization “25 times.” The guide for vaccinated people to start wearing masks indoors again in certain locations with worsening outbreaks, he said, is primarily intended to protect the unvaccinated and immunosuppressed.

The CDC also recommends the use of masks indoors for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors in schools across the country, regardless of immunization status.

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