Variant Mutation News Today

Vaccinated, infection experts warn this variant will continue to feed off the people who havent gotten their shots. here is what dr. william schaffner from vanderbilt university told me on friday. >> well, the more unvaccinated people are, the more opportunities for the virus to multiply. when it does, it mutates and it could throw off a variant mutation that is even more serious down the road. so unvaccinated people are potential variant factories. >> and as far as herd immunity goes, health of...

Multiply. when it does, it mutates, and it could throw off a variant mutation that is even more serious down the road. so, unvaccinated people are potential variant factories. and so the way to avoid that, of course, is to get vaccinated. >> are you concerned at all, worried about the fourth of july becoming a superspreader for some parts of the country? >> i think here and there, there are undoubtedly going to be small outbreaks among unvaccinated people that gather together outside. there will...

Its very difficult to see from today, really, but it is looking like we will see pretty much the continuation and the existing state —— of the existing state for another four weeks. when you see increases in case numbers as rapidly as weve seen over the last week and hospitalisations going up as well, although substantially less rapidly than they were early on, its difficult to argue that we should relax further at the moment. what difficult to argue that we should relax further at the momen...