Jerome Adams said Thursday that he anticipates more closures as the Delta variant keeps spreading.
Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said Thursday.
"They would have made a bigger difference, but even doing it now will help."
The enemy is the Delta variant, governor saysNot only is the variant believed to be far more transmissible than other strains, but an internal report presented to the CDC indicates that it may cause more severe disease and may be as easily transmitted by vaccinated people as by unvaccinated when it causes breakthrough infections.That constitutes an emergency and a public health crisis" Hutchinson said.
Jim Justice said the state's Covid-19 task force will begin assessing the state's PPE and hospital and nursing home preparedness.
Justice said the state will be working with Pfizer to conduct a "battlefield assessment" about the efficacy of the vaccine's antibodies on fighting the Delta variant."The enemy is coming, and the enemy is this Delta variant," Justice said.