Anthony Fauci, the United States’ chief epidemiologist, Anthony Fauci, assured the authorities that the new variant of the COVID-19 detected in New York would be taken seriously. .
“We take the New York variant, the 526, very seriously”, assures this moon Fauci in a press release of the team of the White House framed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Without embarrassment, it was reported that there was no demonstration that it was more contagious than the others.
The variant B.1.526 appeared in November and since then has been extended by Gran Manzana and now represents around 25% of infections.
The most detailed Fauci this variant is likely to originate in the barricade of Washington Heights, the Spanish and Dominican majority, and since then it has expanded to other zones during the holiday period and finals of this year.
However, I guarantee that there is a lot of discussion in the scientific community about this variant and it is necessary to pay attention to it.
Piden vakunas
This March, a medical committee provided health care to a large Washington Heights evacuation center.
También solicitaron se se les entregue suministros para vacunar a 10,000 inwoners al día, just to combat the variant.
The doctor Ramón Tallaj, founder of the SOMOS Community Care network, said to the Associated Press (AP, through its signs in English) that in addition to the center, it is necessary that the vacancies be sent directly to the medical offices.
“We do not understand how to evacuate hospitals, to emergency systems and pharmacies, and also to community medicine, to the fact that people have confidence and knowledge, that they have different idioms, that they exist en su vecindario, no se les ha dado ”, dijo Tallaj.
Asimismo, the doctor told that the information that was available now was that the vaccine had been effective before the new variant had taken place because the mutation had a small effect on it.
Others
Además, of variant 526 of New York, the sanitary authorities vigilant the extension of variant B.1.1.7, detected in United Kingdom; B.1.351, detected in South Africa; the P.1 of Brazil, and a detected in California, known as B.1.427 / 429.