The Delta Variant of coronavirus spreads as easily as chickenpox, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has revealed, arresting that agencies tasked with containing the virus need to acknowledge the war has changed.
On Thursday, the contents of the document, a slide presentation, were first reported by the Washington Post.
The director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle P Walensky, acknowledged on Tuesday that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections of the Delta variant carry just as much virus in the nose and throat as unvaccinated people and may spread it just as readily, if less often.
According to the CDC Study, the Delta variant is more transmissible than MERS & SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the Spanish flu, and smallpox.
