Delta: Worst is Over?
09-22-2021, 09:29 AM
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Delta: Worst is Over?
MSM reports that researchers and modelers advising the CDC expect that delta has peaked and will decline from now through spring, without a winter surge. Hope they're right.
Naturally they cannot account for any hypothetical new contagious strains which might pop up...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-through-march
Naturally they cannot account for any hypothetical new contagious strains which might pop up...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-through-march
09-22-2021, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
MSM reports that researchers and modelers advising the CDC expect that delta has peaked and will decline from now through spring, without a winter surge. Hope they're right.
Naturally they cannot account for any hypothetical new contagious strains which might pop up...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-through-march
Naturally they cannot account for any hypothetical new contagious strains which might pop up...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-through-march
09-22-2021, 12:09 PM
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The end is in sight:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...eading/620062/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...eading/620062/
But the study also demonstrates that hospitalization rates for COVID, as cited by journalists and policy makers, can be misleading, if not considered carefully. Clearly many patients right now are seriously ill. We also know that overcrowding of hospitals by COVID patients with even mild illness can have negative implications for patients in need of other care. At the same time, this study suggests that COVID hospitalization tallies can’t be taken as a simple measure of the prevalence of severe or even moderate disease, because they might inflate the true numbers by a factor of two. “As we look to shift from cases to hospitalizations as a metric to drive policy and assess level of risk to a community or state or country,” Doron told me, referring to decisions about school closures, business restrictions, mask requirements, and so on, “we should refine the definition of hospitalization. Those patients who are there with rather than from COVID don’t belong in the metric.”
09-22-2021, 01:22 PM
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Fauci has released his newest variant. This is no where near over
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...100254694.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...100254694.html
A new variant of the coronavirus which originated in Japan has now been detected at a nursing home in Kentucky, where it infected 45 residents and healthcare workers.
The R.1 variant of the virus is related to the original coronavirus strain and contains "many unique mutations" that can lead to “increased resistance to antibodies in convalescent sera and to neutralising monoclonal antibodies."
The evolved variant was successful in affecting multiple vaccinated people by circumventing antibodies. The variant was detected in April in an outbreak at a Kentucky nursing facility where nearly all residents were vaccinated.
The R.1 variant of the virus is related to the original coronavirus strain and contains "many unique mutations" that can lead to “increased resistance to antibodies in convalescent sera and to neutralising monoclonal antibodies."
The evolved variant was successful in affecting multiple vaccinated people by circumventing antibodies. The variant was detected in April in an outbreak at a Kentucky nursing facility where nearly all residents were vaccinated.
09-22-2021, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
It was detected in Kentucky in April…its now September and Delta is overwhelmingly predominant in the state, with the surge beginning in July.
Clickbait headline there, Yahoo!
Clickbait headline there, Yahoo!
Let’s see how this Fauc-variant plays out.
09-22-2021, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
If the assessments of infections confirmed versus actual infections are correct, we may have depleted the supply of susceptible - at least until the supply of those of us who have only been vaccinated times out…
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