How to protect the most contagious variants of covid-19

(CNN) – A coronavirus variant detected for the first time in the United Kingdom is now the dominant variant in the United States.
The B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 is present in the 50 states of EE.UU. and is contributing to the increase in coronavirus infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at EE.UU .. Only this will be more transmissible, although some investigations also suggest that it can cause more serious disease, which a mayor risks hospitalization and death.

What do you need the person to protect this most contagious variant? Preguntamos a la Dra. Leana Wen, CNN’s medical analyst, emergency physician and visiting professor of politics and sanitation at the School of Public Health at the Milken Institute of the George Washington Institute. También is also the author of the book “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health”.

CNN: What do we need to make a different form now that variant B.1.1.7 has become dominant in the United States?

Wear. Leana Wen: The B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible than the previous ones, which means that we will have more precautionary measures. Some activities that are considered to be high risk, such as going to the supermarket to take public transport, now have a mayor risk of transmitting the virus. Those who are already high, like the bars are closed or reunite with large crowds, now they are a little over.

There’s only one more guard than before. For example, if you are going to air for free in a restaurant, you can complete the CDC indications and have a distance of less than 1.80 meters between the meters. Those who have not been completely evacuated need to hope to come looking for another person in their month.

Dicho esto, esta variant var contagia igual que otras. The same means that we use before trying to prevent coronavirus contagion are effective. This means taking a mascara in public, practicing physical distance and avoiding interior meetings with people who do not belong to their hogar.

It’s most important that no one is evacuated yet.

CNN: Do the vacancies work against this variant?

Win: Say, this is a point that is important. All authorized vacancies currently have a good level of protection against the B.1.1.7 (remember that no evacuation is 100% effective, but evacuating against the covid-19 means that you have much less risk of contracting the disease and closing gravity on it ). There are other variants against which the vacancies can be a little less effective. Without embarrassment, the vacancies follow the fundamental need to prevent these other variants as well, and other variants that can be unlocked in the future.

The mutant viruses when replicated. The best way to prevent the muten virus from detaining its propagation. We will release and detain the propaganda when we evacuate.

CNN: What is the variant that makes it especially fun for girls?

Win: For the last few weeks, we have been recording that the girls are infecting the mayor. Esto includes making a loose adolescent between 20, 30 and 40 años. This is probably a combination of factors.

The most important people are the ones who are first and foremost, and so are most protected. Many young people have no vacancies and, given their mayor’s level of activity, when there is a more contagious variant, it is likely to be more infected. It is also possible that haya algo in the B.1.1.7 that haga adheres more easily to the respiratory system and that the albergue people have more virus, with which it is possible to infect more and be more infected also for the demas.

All of them suggest that it is not as if the virus is attacking anyone in the most youthful way, meaning that the most young people are the most vulnerable, and that many are not evacuated.

CNN: What should we do to avoid getting more infected with this variant?

Win: People who have not been evacuated will intend to evacuate if possible. This is the best defense against this variant and others.
Hasta que puedan vacunarse, deben redoblar todas las precauciones. New, therefore, means a mascara in all public places. The studies he demonstrated that use mascarillas is one: a well-adjusted mascara for a chirurgical mascara.

I am wearing mascara as well as an N95 mascara in the major cities, as for example using public transport or assisting with a religious service in interiors with a lot of people around you.

Intent avoids the mayoral entourage riesgo in that the people do not leave the mascara, as well as the interior counters. Social only for free air, with different height members separated by less than 1.80 metros.

CNN: The CDC reported specifically on juvenile deportations as infection promoters. Do you need to start practicing?

Win: It’s true that in Michigan in Minnesota, among other places, there are homicides associated with juvenile deportations. With this variant B.1.1.7, more transmissible, and the hecho of which the young men under 16 years of age can not be vacated, it is better to have precaution.

The sports that can be practiced in the free air will be much more secure than the ones that are practiced in interiors. Contact sports like the free light tend to have a huge amount of mayor that, for example, football or lacrosse. The players must remove the mascarillas at any moment while not being able to maintain the physical distance. Periodic vigilance tests of all juveniles can help, for example, if all tests are performed weekly for testing to have an asymptomatic infection.

It is very important that the fathers supervise the informal entourage as well as the formal ones. It will not be possible to sign all the precautions during the organized sports, only for the transmission to be produced at the party of pizzas after the party. If the student-athletes obey the guard and transmit the virus in the locker room, all of them will meet again, without mascarillas, during long periods of time.

The ideal is that this type of social interaction is limited at the moment, and that strict precautions are taken to prevent the spread of the virus and to allow the mayor to carry out possible deportations, and classes in person.

CNN: What happens to the people who are totally evacuated, do you have to be careful?

Win: The vacancies that work very well against the B.1.1.7 variant. People who are totally vacant need to know that they are very well protected against this disease. “Completely vacated” means that he has passed the minutes of the week from which he received his vacancies.

Nothing is 100%. What the people decide to do one day is that total vacancy depends on their values ​​and their choices. After being evacuated, the activities that preceded the high risk of being a minor minor, but all had some risk. You must be satisfied with the benefit of these activities.

The CDC states that the total number of vacancies can be reduced and that they can visit other family members without vacancies, while the vacancies do not have a high risk of serious consequences due to covid-19.

Definitely, it is necessary to use mascarillas in public places, including those having vacated spaces, and to reduce the time in high-altitude entrances, as well as closed places competing with people in vacancies.

He defended that he was thinking of a “presumption for the coronavirus,” he said, knowing that he could not do anything, but that he should choose the things that were most important to him.

CNN: Included with a different variant, is its fundamental advice following the various protection media that we follow?

Win: Asi es. We are aware that the pandemic has not ended. The experience is absolute and it is here, but everything we see is special, especially for this more contagious variant.

For goodness sake, use mascarillas, maintain physical distance and avoid interior meetings. Procura vacunarte available.

Waking up is the key to avoiding that this virus can spread and can infect many more people.