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‘Contagious as chicken pox’: New CDC data on delta variant

Health experts emphasize that vaccines still best protection against COVID-19

07/30/2021

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‘Contagious as chicken pox’: New CDC data on delta variant

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Health experts emphasize that vaccines still best protection against COVID-19

The delta variant of the coronavirus is as “contagious as chicken pox,” according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and it can be readily spread by fully-vaccinated people to other fully-vaccinated people, leading to far more COVID-19 breakthrough cases than previously reported.

07/30/2021

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