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If it's like last year, the next COVID-19 season in the northern hemisphere will be in the September/October time frame. If we get a surge of hospitalizations among the vaccinated then it will be cause for concern.
Variants sound really scary for news articles but in reality viruses mutate all the time. The media wants you afraid because it is click revenue for them. So basically a tabloid piece.
If it's like last year, the next COVID-19 season in the northern hemisphere will be in the September/October time frame. If we get a surge of hospitalizations among the vaccinated then it will be cause for concern.
There won't be another surge of this virus in the fall.
This isn't the flu: it follows its own rules.
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Variants sound really scary for news articles but in reality viruses mutate all the time. The media wants you afraid because it is click revenue for them. So basically a tabloid piece.
This is true, but this is a "stable" corona virus, which means, as swilliamsny pointed out, variants will simply exchange virulence for communicability, and we will see nothing new from this one.
Start getting prepared for a brand new virus, or another influenza strain, since a novel influenza virus is something we really should fear.
Politicians and public-health officials in the U.S. are expressing concern about the spread inside the country of the so-called Delta variant of the coronavirus designated by the World Health Organization as a global “variant of concern.”
The variant, also known as B.1.617.2, is the most worrying of a lineage of the virus that was first identified in India in late 2020 and has spread to almost 70 countries, including the U.S.
The version of the virus played a significant role in a record-setting surge of infections that overwhelmed India’s healthcare system. It has become the dominant variant in the U.K., accounting for 96% of samples sent for genetic analysis in the final week of May. After cases of the variant surged, Prime Minister Boris Johnson delayed by four weeks the country’s plans to drop all remaining Covid-19 restrictions in late June.
President Biden tweeted about the variant, noting its spread among young people in the U.K. and urging young Americans to get vaccinated. His chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said in a White House briefing that the variant made up 6% of samples sequenced in the U.S.
This is nothing more than more irresponsible scaremongering. They're trying to throw around terms like "variant" to scare people. Even the most biased sites are showing that IT IS OVER!
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It will be the people who are not vaccinated who will suffer.
Yes, my un-vaccinated, maskless, now-going-into-stores-again, self is really suffering Oh my, won't some government savior come swoop down and SAVE ME from this utter torment!
The most virulent thing out there, so far, is fear mongering propaganda. Thus far, there have been two mutations that don't follow the "standard rule" of more infectious but less deadly. While significant, and of concern, neither have been overwhelming.
The first one I began tracking was E484x
(the x means there are a few different letters that could go here),
and the second was L452x
Each of these gave us variants that were both rapid spreading and somewhat resistant to antibodies we were using to fight them, giving rise to concerns that we would need to create a second vaccine, or that they might cause another surge.
While they (and others) produced an uptick, the increase was minimal, and we are once again on our way to herd immunity. For the US, the pandemic is essentially over. While the virus will be with us forever, the number of infections will remain small.
Unless there is a completely different variant, which would make it "Covid-22" or something, there will be no more surges. This doesn't mean we are "safe" from the virus, but it does mean we are in no greater danger from it, than from other hazards of life.
I hope you are right. But when international travel increases again, the variants will come to the US. So far, they are saying the vaccines we have now are working against the variants.
It’s basically no worse than any of the other variants
The delta variant estimated to be 60% more transmittable than the alpha variant which is why it is likely to become more dominant.
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Oh my, won't some government savior come swoop down and SAVE ME from this utter torment!
The delta variant estimated to be 60% more transmittable than the alpha variant which is why it is likely to become more dominant.
