Typical of the Guardian, this article focuses on Republicans who are refusing to vaccinate rather than people who want the vaccine, but can’t due to America being oppressive to the disadvantaged. Regardless, any uptick in cases is bad news. Here’s hoping Blue Man can fix it again.:DaBiden:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57441677 article links to it
33,000 confirmed cases. 233 hospitalizations. 42 deaths. 12 fully vaccinated. 12 fully vaccinated people of 33,000 dying is not a cause for huge alarm.
Obviously I'm not saying that the Delta variant shouldn't be a major cause for concern, but your chances are extremely good if you've gotten the vaccine.
That's still roughly 2x as many vaccinated people dying as from the previous strain
It seems to be a double death/hospitalization rate for all categories. 3% fatality rate of 60 million unvaxxed Americans is... 1.8 million. Wuh oh
Very roughly. They're not really at comparable stages in their spread, and the predictive power of clinical studies are not great. What we know for sure, is the Delta virus is a more transmissible mutant, which is basically what one would expect given the literature about variants. But dominant variants also trend towards having medium virulence too as that is the optimized evolutionary strategy. So it's unlikely that any of these dominant variants will develop into super killer strains.