Coronavirus in the US: You don’t need to change your vacation plans due to Omicron if you’ve been vaccinated, Fauci said. But don’t wait to get a booster
“That’s where we hope we’ll see with the Omicron variant, that if you get your level high enough, it spills out and gets cross protection against that variant,” Fauci said and added that it remains unclear whether people will need a Covid-19 booster shot every year or more often.
Some Americans may ask if they should wait to get their hands on a Covid-19 booster depending on what scientists learn about the Omicron variant, but Fauci says don’t wait.
“Get that extra boost now,” says Fauci. “The level of antibodies that go up and up after a booster is a lot higher than the peak you get after the second dose of the two-dose vaccine.”
Dr Richard Besser, former acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday that he hopes so-called “Covid-19 fatigue” won’t stop everyone vaccinated person.
“Even if the Omicron strain doesn’t get worse, we’re losing almost a thousand people a day from the Delta variant, and that in itself is a reason for people to boost their health,” Besser said. Besser said.
Travel concerns remain
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said people who are not fully vaccinated or have no evidence of previous infection, as well as those over 60 years of age or have comorbidities such as heart disease or cancer. or diabetes should “delay travel to areas with community transmission” due to the Omicron variant.
Dr Fauci told a White House briefing on Wednesday that the travel ban was “temporary” and needed to slow the emergence of the variant, rather than the highly unlikely task of stopping it. completely.
“No one feels – I certainly don’t – that the travel ban will prevent infected people from coming to the United States,” Fauci said. “But we need a little more time to be able to prepare, to understand what is happening.”
Protracted pandemic effects detected
The study from researchers at the University of Florida found no significant difference in the risk of death between patients with mild or moderate Covid-19 and those without Covid-19, suggesting that preventing Severe Covid-19 infections are the most effective way to avoid deaths.
The study determined that only about 20% of “deaths” in Covid-19 patients were from respiratory or cardiovascular causes.
“As these deaths were not from a direct cause of Covid-19 mortality among these patients who recovered from the initial Covid-19 wave, this data suggests that biological insults from Covid-19 and physiological stress from Covid-19 are significant,” the researchers wrote. The unidentified medical records of nearly 14,000 patients in 2020 were used in their study.
Another analysis, from the United Network for Organ Sharing, found that one in 10 lung transplants in the US in 2021 will have a patient with Covid-19-related lung damage.
In the last five months of 2020, only about 2% – for every 50 cases – received a lung transplant for a Covid-19 patient, the data showed.
CNN’s Jen Christensen, Maggie Fox, Deidre McPhillips, Jacqueline Howard, Virginia Langmaid, Kaitlan Collins, Pete Muntean and Greg Wallace contributed to this report.
