From:
slider@anashram.com
After months of data collection, scientists agree: The delta variant is
the most contagious version of the coronavirus worldwide. It spreads about
two to three times faster than the original version of the virus, and it's currently dominating the outbreak in the United States, responsible for
more than 80% of COVID cases.
A new study, published online this month, sheds light on why. It finds
that the variant grows more rapidly inside people's respiratory tracts and
to much higher levels, researchers at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light?t=1627122747461
On average, people infected with the delta variant had about 1,000 times
more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected
with the original strain of the coronavirus, the study reported.
In addition, after someone catches the delta variant, the person likely
becomes infectious sooner. On average, it took about four days for the
delta variant to reach detectable levels inside a person, compared with
six days for the original coronavirus variant.
In the study, scientists analyzed COVID-19 patients involved in the first outbreak of the delta variant in mainland China, which occurred between
May 21 and June 18 in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. The researchers measured the levels of virus in 62 people involved in that
outbreak and compared them with the levels in 63 patients infected in 2020
with an early version of the virus.
Their findings suggest that people who have contracted the delta variant
are likely spreading the virus earlier in the course of their infection.
And the scientists underscore the importance of quarantining immediately
for 14 days after coming into contact with someone diagnosed with
COVID-19, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
recommends.
Or even better, getting fully vaccinated. Preliminary data shows that in
some U.S. states, 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths in the past few months were
among people who weren't vaccinated, said CDC director Dr. Rochelle
Walensky at a White House press conference in early July.
And 97% of those currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, according to Walensky.
"We know that the delta variant ... is currently surging in pockets of the country with low vaccination rates," Walensky said. "We also know that our authorized vaccines prevent severe disease, hospitalization and death from
the delta variant."
### - it's gonna be very difficult to end this update on a cute puppy
story (will do my best heh) as current chatter surrounding this delta
variant is suggesting that people are somewhere around 5-times more likely
to catch this strain if/whenever they're exposed to it!
the original strain being contagious enough to actually cause a pandemic,
one source is alarmingly suggesting that this delta variant is so very contagious that it's inevitable that everyone on the planet will become infected with it regardless of any of the preventative measures employed!
the only hope being that those who've been vaccinated are less likely to
end up in hospital and/or to die from it!
so not a good day, for example, for any anti-vaxxers out there still
refusing to take their medicine, coz they're gonna catch it anyway at some point whether they believe in it, like it, hate it or otherwise?
everyone here in the uk still waiting to see if 'bungling boris' goes down
with it or not after being exposed to delta by his health secretary (oh
the irony heh) both of them currently in 2 weeks isolation in order to
find out...
there being far less sympathy here for the boris this time around i can
tell ya! (i.e., they'll likely be arranging mass coach-parties and day-out passes to go piss on the fuckers grave if he snuffs it lol)
:D
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