Why the Vaccines Are Only About 50% Effective Against the Delta Variant
The American public is being misled about the coronavirus vaccines, and it needs to stop now.
That’s what Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Institute, tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast on the sobering latest episode of The New Abnormal. Fully vaccinated folks are walking around thinking they’re 95 percent protected from the virus, but with the Delta variant raging across the country, that number is actually more like 50 percent, Topol says.
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