Faced with the increase in coronavirus cases in several cities, the United States decided to place additional doses of vaccines among the highest risk groups. In this way, it will follow the strategy of the third application, which other countries have already begun to explore, such as Germany, France and Israel.
It was confirmed by Anthony Fauci, the leading American expert on infectious diseases, who had advised Donald Trump in early 2020 and now does so with Joe Biden.
According to Fauci, the idea is to administer booster injections to those people with compromised immune systems “as quickly as possible”, since cases of the delta variant continue to increase.
The decision ignores a request from the World Health Organization to wait until more people around the world have been vaccinated with at least the first dose.
The only obstacle to moving forward in this regard is that US regulators must authorize this protocol or modify their previous authorizations, with the idea that they can recommend extra injections.
Beyond this, according to Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention they are already working to make the third doses “available sooner.”
“It is extremely important for us to move forward to give these individuals their reinforcements and now we are working on that,” Fauci said at a press conference, according to Reuters. “Immunosuppressed people may not be sufficiently protected by their current Covid vaccines,” he completed.
Fauci He also said that “if it is not possible to avoid slowing down the spread, another variant worse than the delta is possible.”
What happens if the pandemic does not end?
For businesses and the broader economy, the fact that the pandemic does not meet an end is dramatic. This is so because the first and second waves wiped out the savings and now there are no more resources to sustain themselves.
Some sectors, such as tourism, transport and entertainment, are in extreme situations in much of the world and an increase in cases, with new confinements, could continue to crush them.
Cases in the United States on the rise
In the United States, Covid cases increased approximately 42.9 percent compared to last week, and deaths per day grew more than 40 percent, according to official data released by the director of the control centers. , Rochelle Walensky, who also spoke at the conference.
The United States reached a maximum in six months of new cases of Covid, with more than 100,000 infections this Wednesday, August 4, according to Reuters.