Dangerous Delta COVID-19 Variant Infecting Vaccinated Adults In Israel

The World Health Organization is recommending that everyone, even the fully vaccinated, continue to wear masks because of the highly transmissible variant.

In an alarming new development, the particularly virulent delta variant of COVID-19 has infected some fully vaccinated adults in Israel, officials there have reported. Though the daily total of new cases in the country on Thursday was a relatively low 200, about half of adults infected amid an outbreak of the delta variant had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.  Half of all infected were children younger than 16, most of whom hadn’t yet been vaccinated, professor Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel on COVID-19 for the Israeli government, told the Journal.