The former coronavirus testing czar under President Trump, Adm. Brett Giroir reportedly told CNN “the next variant is just around the corner, if we do not all get vaccinated. I just beg the American people to understand that to defeat this virus, we have to get everybody’s level of immunity up, and that’s just the way it is.”

Referring to White House data director Dr. Cyrus Shahpar tweet CNN writes “there was the most number of doses reported administered in a single day in more than a month. He said that more than 864,000 doses had been reported administered over the previous day’s total, including about 585,000 people who got their first shot.”

Dr. Michael Osterholm, director for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, told CNN that if you’re not protected against Covid-19, the virus will likely infect you.

This virus is highly infectious. If you decide to try to run the game clock out, don’t try to do it. This virus will find you, it will infect you eventually.

Dr. Michael Osterholm, cirector of CIDRAP (source: CNN Health)

“If that’s not enough to motivate people to get vaccinated, then the only other things I think we have are the mandates that say, ‘If you’re going to work here or go here … you have to get vaccinated‘” Dr. Osterholm added.

“If you are a case and you become infectious, you do two things: one is you pose a risk to others including your own loved ones, but number two is you’re also using hospital resources right now which in many instances are very, very short”.

Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly said in an interview with McClatchy “If we don’t crush the outbreak to the point of getting the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated, then what will happen is the virus will continue to smolder through the fall into the winter, giving it ample chance to get a variant which, quite frankly, we’re very lucky that the vaccines we have now do very well against the variants — particularly against severe illness. There could be a variant that’s lingering out there that can push aside Delta.”

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• If we do not all get vaccinated, the next Covid-19 variant is just around the corner
• If you’re not protected against Covid-19, the virus ‘will find you, it will infect you,’
• Poll: Vaccinated adults are more concerned about delta variant of COVID -19 than the unvaccinated

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation latest tracking poll, “vaccinated adults are nearly twice as likely to worry that new variants like delta will worsen the pandemic nationally and locally. And the vaccinated are more likely than the unvaccinated to say they wear masks at work, in grocery stores and other indoor places or in crowded outdoor settings.”

Seeing their friends get sick and local hospitals fill up again with COVID patients may speed them along and add to their ranks.

Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation (source: USA Today)

Dr. Fauci added in the McCltchy interview “And if a variant arises that’s also highly contagious but also more likely to cause severe illness, ‘then we really could be in trouble‘. People who are not getting vaccinated mistakenly think it’s only about them. But it isn’t. it’s about everybody else, also.”

According to figures published by the CDC, the Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 93.4% of coronavirus circulating in the US, writes CNN Health.