Delta Virus explosion in US ? -- is it starting?

[BobRyan]

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...ndemic-surge/619456/?utm_source=pocket-newtab


=========== Article says
"The summer wasn’t meant to be like this. By April, Greene County, in southwestern Missouri, seemed to be past the worst of the pandemic. Intensive-care units that once overflowed had emptied. Vaccinations were rising..."

"The hospital is now busier than at any previous point during the pandemic. In just five weeks, it took in as many COVID-19 patients as it did over five months last year. Ten minutes away, another big hospital, Cox Medical Center South, has been inundated just as quickly. “We only get beds available when someone dies, which happens several times a day,” Terrence Coulter, the critical-care medical director at CoxHealth, told me.

"Last week, Katie Towns, the acting director of the Springfield–Greene County Health Department, was concerned that the county’s daily cases were topping 250. On Wednesday, the daily count hit 405. This dramatic surge is the work of the super-contagious Delta variant, which now accounts for 95 percent of Greene County’s new cases, according to Towns. It is spreading easily because people have ditched their masks, crowded into indoor spaces, resumed travel, and resisted vaccinations. Just 40 percent of people in Greene County are fully vaccinated. In some nearby counties, less than 20 percent of people are.

 

[pescador]

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...ndemic-surge/619456/?utm_source=pocket-newtab


=========== Article says
"The summer wasn’t meant to be like this. By April, Greene County, in southwestern Missouri, seemed to be past the worst of the pandemic. Intensive-care units that once overflowed had emptied. Vaccinations were rising..."

"The hospital is now busier than at any previous point during the pandemic. In just five weeks, it took in as many COVID-19 patients as it did over five months last year. Ten minutes away, another big hospital, Cox Medical Center South, has been inundated just as quickly. “We only get beds available when someone dies, which happens several times a day,” Terrence Coulter, the critical-care medical director at CoxHealth, told me.

"Last week, Katie Towns, the acting director of the Springfield–Greene County Health Department, was concerned that the county’s daily cases were topping 250. On Wednesday, the daily count hit 405. This dramatic surge is the work of the super-contagious Delta variant, which now accounts for 95 percent of Greene County’s new cases, according to Towns. It is spreading easily because people have ditched their masks, crowded into indoor spaces, resumed travel, and resisted vaccinations. Just 40 percent of people in Greene County are fully vaccinated. In some nearby counties, less than 20 percent of people are.

It seems to me to be natural selection. If people refuse to get the easily-available free vaccine their chances of dying increase dramatically.

 

[anna ~ grace]

Probably. People who had already been vaccinated were dying of this in India.

 

[BobRyan]

Probably. People who had already been vaccinated were dying of this in India.

I think some vaccines have proved to be more effective against Delta than others

 

[anna ~ grace]

I think some vaccines have proved to be more effective against Delta than others

Still…

 

[BobRyan]

Still…

Yes I agree none of the vaccines are 100% even if some are somewhat better than others for Delta.

 

[The Barbarian]

The real issue is that the more people get infected, the larger the likelihood of a new strain mutating, which will be resistant to present vaccinations.

Those fools who are refusing vaccination are putting everyone at risk.

 

[Blade]

The real issue is that the more people get infected, the larger the likelihood of a new strain mutating, which will be resistant to present vaccinations.

Those fools who are refusing vaccination are putting everyone at risk.

Sorry why call people you don't know names? Does not Gods word talk about calling people "fools"?

Not sure I would be calling anyone a fool that does not want to test a new vac that still has not been FDA approved and they still do not know all the side effects that can happen.

 

[The Barbarian]

Sorry why call people you don't know names? Does not Gods word talk about calling people "fools"?

What do you call people who endanger themselves and others for no reason? As you see, COVID-19 is now almost exclusively the pandemic of unvaccinated people. Nothing is more foolish than to risk your life unnecessarily, unless it's putting others' lives at risk thereby.

Not sure I would be calling anyone a fool that does not want to test a new vac that still has not been FDA approved and they still do not know all the side effects that can happen.

Would you like to make a small wager on whether or not large-scale side effects happen? In fact, the technology would indicate that side effects will be less than with earlier, more primitive vaccines like polio and diptheria.

Meantime, people are dying because they were foolish enough to listen to right wing commentators who chose to be vaccinated themselves, but tell others not to do it for political purposes.

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