{"id":91260,"date":"2021-10-19T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91260"},"modified":"2021-10-19T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:02:18","slug":"here-comes-the-covid-delta-plus-variant-ay-4-just-how-many-boosters-will-that-require-sarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91260","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the new &#8220;Covid Delta Plus Variant&#8221; (AY.4)! Just how many boosters will that require?! (sarc)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pfizer Board Member Reveals New \u2018AY.4\u2019 COVID \u2018Delta Plus\u2019 Variant, Which Could Require Even More Vaccines<\/h1>\n<h3>&#8220;We need urgent research to figure out if this delta plus is more transmissible, has partial immune evasion?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->by GABRIEL KEANE<br \/>\nNational File<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91262\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-8.00.59-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-8.00.59-AM.png 696w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-8.00.59-AM-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<h3>Former FDA commissioner and current Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb took to Twitter over the weekend to educate followers about a new variant of COVID-19, described by the ominous monikers \u201cdelta plus\u201d and \u201cAY.4.\u201d Gottlieb warned that the latest variant could have \u201cpartial immune evasion,\u201d which was cited as a reason for taking booster shots during the \u201cdelta variant\u201d panic earlier this year.<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cUK reported its biggest one-day Covid case increase in 3 months just as the new delta variant AY.4 with the S:Y145H mutation in the spike reaches 8% of UK sequenced cases,\u201d Gottlieb stated on Twitter. \u201cWe need urgent research to figure out if this delta plus is more transmissible, has partial immune evasion?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=com&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1449803423906418691&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalfile.com%2Fpfizer-board-member-reveals-new-ay-4-covid-delta-plus-variant-which-could-require-even-more-vaccines%2F&amp;sessionId=80b8de62bf7f11ea8cb03bf90af3b8f290d0491d&amp;siteScreenName=nationalfile&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449803423906418691\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-14\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Gottlieb continued the educational Twitter thread by adding, \u201cThe variant has been in the UK since about July, but it has been slowly increasing in prevalence. There\u2019s no clear indication that it\u2019s considerably more transmissible, but we should work to more quickly characterize these and other new variants. We have the tools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=com&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1449828895952355328&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalfile.com%2Fpfizer-board-member-reveals-new-ay-4-covid-delta-plus-variant-which-could-require-even-more-vaccines%2F&amp;sessionId=80b8de62bf7f11ea8cb03bf90af3b8f290d0491d&amp;siteScreenName=nationalfile&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449828895952355328\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cThis is not a cause for immediate concern but a reminder that we need robust systems to identify, characterize new variants,\u201d Gottlieb concluded. \u201cThis needs to be a coordinated, global priority for Covid same as similar international efforts have become standard practice in influenza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gottlieb served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 until April 2019, and is currently a member of the board of directors at leading vaccine corporation Pfizer, Inc. He wrote a bestselling book about COVID called \u201cUncontrolled Spread\u201d and frequently appears on corporate television news networks.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/pfizer-board-member-reveals-new-ay-4-covid-delta-plus-variant-which-could-require-even-more-vaccines\/\">https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/pfizer-board-member-reveals-new-ay-4-covid-delta-plus-variant-which-could-require-even-more-vaccines\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer Board Member Reveals New \u2018AY.4\u2019 COVID \u2018Delta Plus\u2019 Variant, Which Could Require Even More Vaccines &#8220;We need urgent research to figure out if this delta plus is more transmissible, has partial immune evasion?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}