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Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled - Ed Yong
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The Reassuring Data on the Delta Variant
You read the same alarming headlines every few months, now with Greek letters. As the virus that causes Covid-19 evolves and mutates, the same concerns pop up about whether the variant evades vaccines, makes people sicker than the old versions, and increases transmissibility. What we know about the Delta variant is reassuring.
One of the most important questions is whether vaccines are still working well. The best way to answer that is to look at the number of vaccinated people getting serious Covid-19 symptoms or being hospitalized. A new study from the U.K. found that vaccines are still incredibly effective at preventing serious illness with the Delta variant circulating. The Pfizer…
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How the delta variant is altering the course of the pandemic
The delta variant has made Covid-19 more dangerous than ever for unvaccinated people.
New delta variant studies show the pandemic is far from over
The variant is not only more contagious than earlier strains, it also makes people sicker. And even vaccinated people can get infected and house similar levels of viral particles in their noses as unvaccinated people, raising concern about the vaccines’ ability to curb transmission, new data indicate. But experts caution that there’s more to infectiousness than just those viral levels in the nose.
The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one vaccine but many, with 3 billion doses already delivered. At the same time, the coronavirus has evolved into super-transmissible variants that spread more easily. The clash between these variables will define the coming months and seasons. Here, then, are three simple principles to understand how they interact. Each has caveats and nuances, but together, they can serve as a guide to our near-term future.
The Delta Variant and Covid-19 Vaccines: What to Know
Authorized vaccines effectively prevent serious illness and hospitalization, research shows
The Delta Variant Is the Symptom of a Bigger Threat: Vaccine Refusal
There are almost as many reasons for vaccine hesitancy and refusal as there are unvaccinated Americans. But this problem, not the variant, lies at the root of rising infection rates.
C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox
The Delta variant is more transmissible than the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the seasonal flu and smallpox, and it is as contagious as chickenpox...
With The Delta Variant Spreading Fast, Is It Time To Mask Up Again?
"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky at a briefing Friday. "If you remain unvaccinated, you are at risk."
Coronavirus delta variant: What you should know
The novel coronavirus is, unfortunately for us, good at doing what viruses do best: mutating in order to become more efficient and infect more people. The delta variant, a strain first documented in India, has caused devastation in the country and is now the dominant strain in the US and many other countries.
The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled. This is the first pandemic in history in which scientists are sequencing the genes of a new virus, and tracking its evolution, in real time—that’s why we know about the variants at all. The WHO’s decision to name variants after the Greek alphabet means that at some point, we’ll probably be dealing with an Omega variant.
Delta variant triggers new phase in the pandemic
From New Delhi, the variant has quickly spread, and it now looks set to sweep the globe in what could be a devastating new wave.
Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant
There’s no way of knowing how bad things will get in the U.S. In a way, that’s a luxury.
Vaccines ‘outpaced by variants’, WHO warns, as Delta now in 98 countries
“We need everybody vaccinated now. We are not all protected until the whole world is protected. It can come across as idealism, but it’s not – there’s a cold-hearted, self-interested motivation behind all of it.”
What We Know About the Dangerous Delta Variant
The Delta (B.1.617.2) coronavirus variant originally discovered in India last December has now become one the most — if not the most — worrisome strain of the coronavirus circulating globally.
Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines
Scientists have identified more than 20 mutations in the Delta variant, but two may be crucial in helping it transmit more effectively than earlier strains. This is why early reports from India called it a “double mutant”.
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About the Delta Variant (if You’re Vaccinated)
You may have heard that the delta variant of the coronavirus is more transmissible than other strains, that it’s responsible for the catastrophic outbreak in India, that it’s spreading so fast in the U.S. it will soon become the dominant strain here. But Dr. Monica Gandhi wants you to rethink all that.
The Reassuring Data on the Delta Variant
“In baseball you don’t know nothing,” Yogi Berra observed. But we need to stop acting as if we know nothing about Covid-19. Every variant that has come along has produced unwarranted panic. We have to work harder to get people vaccinated, given that almost every American death from Covid-19 is tragically preventable, that world-wide vaccination is paramount to tamp down transmission and stop future variants, and that saving lives everywhere is the right thing to do.
5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant
For the first time in more than a year, we’re feeling some hope—or at least cautious optimism—that the pandemic could recede to the background. But experts want us to know that there is still a concern that new mutations of the virus could bring it back, and it might be even stronger.
The U.K.’s Delta Surge Is Collapsing. Will Ours?
And while there still may be some rise in deaths in both the U.K. and the Netherlands, given the lag between infection and ultimate outcomes, in neither country have deaths reached even one-fifteenth of the level of the local winter surge. In the U.K., they had almost as many new daily cases as they’d had in January; in the Netherlands, even more. Can we count on precisely the same pattern unfolding here? The causes of the sudden case declines in those two countries are murky,
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