As COVID-related hospitalizations once again increase across the U.S., experts are researching the newly identified variants, their transmissibility and possible mutations. How concerned should the public be about these new variants? What is a good time to get fall vaccines? Can we expect the reinstitution of mask and social distancing regulations?
Jodie Guest, Ph.D., professor and senior vice chair of the department of epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, teamed up with Carlos del Rio, MD, distinguished professor of medicine, epidemiology and global health, interim dean of Emory University School of Medicine and interim chief academic officer at Emory Health care, to answer these questions and more.A: Unfortunately, the vaccination coverage in the U.S. is not ideal.
A: What is different about this variant is that it has more than 30 than the previous variant that was circulating. This is about equivalent to what the initial omicron variant was compared to the delta variant. And if you remember, we saw a massive increase in cases with omicron.is that different.
A: Yes, and I would also feel comfortable getting the RSV vaccine. The reality is that we now have vaccines against thoseand for people over the age of 60—who are at high risk of hospitalization and death—that would be a good thing to do. Many of us are expecting what we've seen in the past, which is an early RSV wave, followed by a flu wave and finishing off with a COVID-19 wave.
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