06/29/2021

The Delta Variant Will Cause 'Very Dense Outbreaks' in These Five States

Experts believe the South will be most affected

The Delta variant, a strain of COVID-19 believed to be more transmissible and dangerous than others, is likely to break out in some US communities, a health expert told CBS's "Face the Nation."

"It's not going to be as pervasive," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said Sunday. "It's going to hyper-regionalized. There's certain pockets of the country where you're going to have very dense outbreaks."

Those pockets will be ones with low vaccination rates and low rates of prior infection, Gottlieb said, like in many rural and southern communities.

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