What Does the Delta Variant Mean for Your Investments?

With the Delta variant of COVID running rampant, how does another looming wave of COVID impact your portfolio? What do potential mask mandates, a rise in cases and slowing vaccination rates mean for the market and the economy?

 Let’s review what we already know.

The Delta Variant

With the rise of the Delta variant, infection rates are significantly up. Just months ago infection rates were on a downward trend, but all across the country we’re seeing the rate of COVID cases rise exponentially. While this variant, and, the U.S is just over 50% fully vaccinated. Experts, like the ,  believe that we’d need vaccination rates of 70% to 85% of the total population to reach the herd immunity threshold.