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Booster recommended FILE – In this file photo dated July 22, 2021, a health care worker at the American Museum of Natural History in New York fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. U.S. health officials recommended COVID-19 booster vaccinations for all Americans on Wednesday, August 18, to bolster their protection amid the emerging Delta variant and to prove that the vaccines are wearing off. (AP Photo / Mary Altaffer, File) (Maria Altaffer / AP)

Aug 31, 2021 at 10:27 am EDTfrom Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH – How should businesses respond to deepening transmission of Covid-19 thanks to the delta wave that put Allegheny and many other Pennsylvania counties at the highest level of transmission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? By employing the same types of personal containment measures that stopped the transmission in the past, experts say.

That is vaccination, masking and distancing.

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“It is unfortunate that we are seeing another surge of activity with the Delta variant, but at the same time there is no secret what we need to do,” said Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology. “We already have the solutions to the pandemic in our hands and we know how to use them.”

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