Delta plus: What we know about the latest coronavirus variant

Viruses like to reproduce, but they need hosts to do it.

(Spike proteins are what allows COVID and other viruses toget into our cells.)

Will delta plus be worse than the already horrible delta?

So far, delta plus hasn’t done that, but more research is needed.

How concerned should we be?

The CDC refers to these variants as “variants of high consequence.”

Right now there are none.

Getting the “overwhelming proportion of the population” vaccinated will “crush the outbreak,” Fauci said.

But until then, the coronavirus has “ample chance” to morph, he said.

“People who are not getting vaccinated mistakenly think it’s only about them.

But it isn’t,” Fauci said.

“It’s about everybody else, also.”