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A dangerous Covid-19 variant on the rise could cause outbreaks in US states with lower vaccination rates, expert says - CNN
Jun 14, 2021 1 min, 32 secs
Less than half of adults living in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For states lagging in vaccinations, the Delta variant could pose serious risk since experts believe the Delta variant is significantly more transmissible than its predecessors, Gottlieb said.

The good news is that evidence shows vaccines are still effective against it.

"We have the tools to control this and defeat it, we just need to use those tools," Gottlieb said.

Heart inflammation in young people could be due to behavior, expert says

There has been a higher-than-expected number of cases of a heart ailment among young people, most often males, who've recently received their second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, according to the CDC.

Gottlieb said the inflammation could be due to behavior change.

"It could be the case that as young people get vaccinated, they're going out more.

Gottlieb cited respiratory syncytial virus, enterovirus, echoviruses and coxsackie viruses.

"It's not clear that it's the vaccine or perhaps a change in behavior, but it's certainly something we should be looking closely at, because we have to properly inform patients, if in fact this is a risk," he added.

Gottlieb said he doesn't think the cases of heart inflammation change the risk-benefit balance for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are set to meet this week to discuss a possible link between the vaccines and the inflammatory conditions.

The CDC noted last week that the inflammatory condition is rare, and most patients who received care responded to treatment.

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