U.S. COVID-19 cases are up around 11% over the previous week, almost entirely among people who have not been vaccinated, officials said on Thursday, as the highly infectious Delta variant becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain in the country.
Around 93% of COVID-19 cases in recent days have occurred in counties with vaccination rates of less than 40%, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky told a media briefing.
Preliminary data from recent months suggest 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in unvaccinated people, she added.
“Simply put: In areas of low vaccination coverage, cases and hospitalizations are up,” Walensky…
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