{"id":120376,"date":"2021-08-25T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=120376"},"modified":"2021-08-25T01:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:13:28","slug":"covid-85-90-of-the-u-s-must-be-vaccinated-if-were-going-to-get-past-this-warns-dr-peter-hotez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/covid-85-90-of-the-u-s-must-be-vaccinated-if-were-going-to-get-past-this-warns-dr-peter-hotez\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: 85-90% of the U.S. must be vaccinated \u2018if we\u2019re going to get past this,\u2019 warns Dr. Peter Hotez"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Covid deaths in the U.S. are as high as they were in March, with more than 1,000 a day.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe&#x27;re now realizing with the variant that\u2019s this transmissible, that we have to get to 85%, maybe, as Tony Fauci said, 90% of the country vaccinated,\u201d said Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Peter Hotez warned that rapid spread of the delta coronavirus variant has forced the threshold for the amount of Americans requiring vaccination in order to achieve herd immunity much higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;re now realizing with the variant that&#x27;s this transmissible, that we have to get to 85%, maybe, as Tony Fauci said, 90% of the country vaccinated,&quot; said Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children&#x27;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s not 85%, 90% of the adults, that&#x27;s 85-90% of the country which means all of the adults and all of the adolescents, if we&#x27;re really going to get past this, and this is why he&#x27;s giving these extended time frames before we get out of Covid-19.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted the nation could have some control over Covid by Spring 2022 if the &quot;overwhelming majority of people who have not been vaccinated&quot; get vaccinated. Covid deaths in the U.S. are as high as they were in March, with more than 1,000 a day.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials maintain vaccination is the best tool to combat rising cases. As of Sunday, about 51% of the total U.S. population is fully vaccinated against Covid, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hotez told CNBC&#x27;s &quot;The News with Shepard Smith&quot; that based on data coming out of Israel, the U.S. is going to have to &quot;readjust,&quot; and that could include the need to wear masks outdoors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you are in crowded conditions outside, this is pretty highly transmissible, so certainly, any kind of sporting event, music event &#8212; you would not want to go in there without a mask,&quot; said Hotez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a new statewide outdoor mask mandate Tuesday that requires people to wear masks in most outdoor settings, regardless of vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/24\/covid-85-90percent-of-the-us-must-be-vaccinated-if-were-going-to-get-past-this-warns-dr-peter-hotez.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid deaths in the U.S. are as high as they were in March, with more than 1,000 a day. \u201cWe&#x27;re now realizing with the variant [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Covid: 85-90% of the U.S. must be vaccinated \u2018if we\u2019re going to get past this,\u2019 warns Dr. Peter Hotez - 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