The former head of the Food and Drug Administration said Sunday that the New York homegrown COVID-19 variant could infect people who already have the virus – or have even been vaccinated.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb said it’s not clear if the Covid-19 variant, known as B1.526, is going viral in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
“What we don’t understand with 1.526 is whether people are re-infected and whether people who have been vaccinated are now re-infected,” Gottlieb said. CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on “The Face of the Nation.”
The New York variant has a similar variation to the South African variant B.1.351, showing people with bugs re-infected in “certain cases,” Gottlieb said.
“The question is whether or not [B.1.526] We’re looking at New York right now and some are responsible for whether there’s a new outbreak starting within this city.
A former Trump administration official said public health experts currently lack enough data to draw any clear conclusions.
He is a C.D.C. Together with New York officials b..5.226. Called for the identification of possible coronavirus reactions associated with, which he warned were “more prevalent than we are looking for.
“They need to aggressively market to doctors, telling doctors to come forward and report the case. People may have contracted covid infection before, perhaps again,” he said of the federal agency.
“We don’t know if it’s happening, but imaginatively, some doctors are reporting now, and that could potentially explain why you’re seeing a surge in cases.”
Gottlieb said the federal government’s vaccination efforts should act as a “backstop” against the second wave of COVID-19 cases – but warned that pushing New York and other state officials to reopen the business could lead to a “surge” in cases. .
“We easily got our feet off the brakes a little early. March has always been a difficult month. People want to lean forward, but we really had to wait until April.
“The fact that we’ve done that now probably means that we’re probably going to be on the plates. Maybe we’ll see a stimulus in some parts of the country.”
City health officials said earlier this month that more than half of New York City’s new coronavirus cases contain covid-1 var types, including B1.22626.
On Saturday, Governv. Andrew Cuomo’s announced fee revealed the city’s first confirmed case of the Brazilian P1 variant, which would make vaccines less effective than the New York variant.
“While additional research is guaranteed, researchers at Oxford University recently released non-peer-reviewed data showing that the P. variant may be less resistant than the original consideration for current vaccines,” the governor’s office said.
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