Epidemiologists foresee the next viral surge to arrive in America will be here in a month, and that it will clearly be the Delta variant. New cases have already gone from 10% to 30% in 2 weeks' time.
Infection with Delta results in 2½-to-4 times the hospitalization risk…that is, up to 400% more damaging.
Transmission can occur in a fleeting 5-to-10-second contact with an infected person, long enough for a fast-food drive-through.
For those yet to be vaccinated, there's been talk of switching your plans to receiving the double-dose Pfizer or Moderna inoculations, as is now recommended in Canada for its citizenry.
Statistics for the UK's lesser Alpha strain have shown that 1 out of every 100 children are hospitalized for COVID-19. But with Delta, it's not hard to guess that those stats will be higher.
Here in America, it's predominantly the red counties (where anti-vaccine propaganda has been most effective) that may become our undoing. Steve Edwards, CEO of Cox Health hospitals in Missouri, has pleaded with Fox News to alert their viewers to the present danger, but to no avail. We should know by now what to expect: casualties and further mutations.
And to top it off, there's already a brand new strain: Delta Plus, otherwise known as AY.1, which is, in a word, worse.
Data from Eric Feigl-Ding, Federation Of American Scientists.
Thanks for these disturbing summaries. You distill a lot of information into a clear result.
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