I would not draw any conclusion about anything working in CA right now vs the delta variant. reports about delta exploding in L.A. and And I would say the delta variant is ramping up hard around me. I never saw this with earlier variants. And its really odd its happening this time of year. Something is different... maybe this is the most contagious cold ever... but I suspect the test results are way behind reality and this "cold" that goes away quickly for most is covid. Maybe this recall election has something to do with the numbers and level of fear being pushed?
Let's take a look at reality. The dominant COVID variant in Mexico and Central America is a Gamma variant first discovered in Brazil -- in Mexico there is a related Mexico variant. The other leading variant in the South American region being Lambda which came out of Peru -- however Gamma is more greatly present in Central America & Mexico than Lambda. Mexico found it's first Delta variant case a mere 14 days ago --- so Delta is brand new in Mexico and not being carried across the border to the U.S. from Mexico & Central America. The reality is that American tourists brought the Delta variant to Mexico -- the problem is us infecting them with Delta. The dominant strain of COVID in the United States is the Delta variant. The largest initial outbreaks of the Delta variant were in Florida and New York --- and are most likely associated with incoming air travel. T It is very hard to make a case that illegal immigrants coming across the border are widely spreading COVID in the U.S. -- when there are few Gamma variant cases in the U.S. (comparatively) -- and Delta is the dominant strain in the U.S. If the border crossers were responsible for spreading COVID then the Gamma and Mexico COVID variants would be predominant in the border states and in places where illegal migrants have commonly settled. Basically during no period of recent weeks was there any type of spike of these variants seen anywhere in the U.S. that can be associated with illegal immigrants. Most of these variant cases found were associated with people who arrived legally by air (and their traced contacts locally) from South America & other places where the strains were dominant -- and were found in Florida and other tourist destinations in the U.S. The bottom line however is that there are few cases of the Delta variant in Central America and Mexico --- and the illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. border are not infecting our country with the Delta variant. Delta was long in the U.S. before it appeared in Mexico and Central America. In recent news -- the situation with breakouts of COVID in a children's detention facility being hidden is sad. Biden is holding more kids in cages than Trump ever did --- if you are going to hold large numbers in detention then COVID is going to breakout unless preventive measures are taken (which they were not). For months under Trump the Democrats whined about COVID in facilities where illegal immigrants were being held -- they made endless noise about it. However now when we have outbreaks in detention facilities under Biden -- all we hear from Democrats is crickets.
I love how you are able to make a claim that an unknown number of an unknown population made up of an unknown origin are somehow responsible or not responsible for spreading a particular variant of a virus. In the same breath, you are able to blame one governor of one state for the entire spreading of the entire country's problems of one variant like he cooked it up in his dining room for delivery. Is there no end to your expertise?? I'm telling ya, folks. This GWB? He's gotta have an IQ of 400. Should be working on curing cancer or faster than light travel with all these smarts.
Tell us how illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico caused the spread of the Delta variant in the U.S. when there is barely any Delta variant found in Mexico. Just provide us with a reasonable explanation of how the illegal immigrants are responsible for spreading the Delta variant.
The large majority of illegal immigrants cross the border from Mexico. It should be noted the dominant strain in the central American countries where some of the immigrants originate from is not Delta either.
Coronavirus Variant begins spreading rapidly across Florida. No, no, ANOTHER one. Welcome to Florida -- otherwise known as COVID Central. Another coronavirus variant has reached Florida. Here's what you need to know. https://news.yahoo.com/another-coronavirus-variant-reached-florida-192854583.html A coronavirus variant discovered in Colombia is showing up among patients in South Florida, increasing infections and putting health officials on alert as calls grow louder for unvaccinated individuals to get inoculated. Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health System, told WPLG in Miami earlier this week that the B.1.621 variant has accounted for about 10% of coronavirus patients, trailing behind delta, the now dominant variant in the United States that's been ravaging the nation's unvaccinated, and the gamma variant. B.1.621 has yet to receive a Greek-letter designation as more prominent variants have. Migoya told the news station that he speculated B.1.621 is likely rising in South Florida because of international travel between Colombia and Miami, which serves as a gateway to Latin America. A person who replied to an email sent from The Washington Post to Migoya's office said he was unavailable to comment. Health experts will keep B.1.621 on their radar as the fall season looms and as parts of the country still lag in their vaccination efforts, experts told The Post. The earliest documented samples of B.1.621 were noted in January, and at least 16 cases have been recently reported in the United Kingdom, where health officials have noted that the majority of cases linked to the variant were the result of international travel. Public Health England noted last week that there is currently no evidence to indicate that the variant causes more severe disease or evades the efficacy of vaccines. Yet, the agency has designated the variant to be under investigation as it continues to conduct lab testing to better understand the impact mutations have on the coronavirus. The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has also chosen to assign the variant as one of interest, as evidence could suggest significant impact, but also noting that much of the data is preliminary and marked with many questions. In the United States, the variant has yet to be named a variant of interest of concern, accounting for just more than 2.1% of cases as of July 17, noted John Sellick, a professor at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. "The only time it becomes important is if it gives virus selective advantage, which we've seen with delta variant," he said. "We'll see with this one. . . . What we have to see is two weeks from now, or four weeks from now, is this going to do another trick and wind up being more?" Sellick noted how quickly the delta variant went from accounting for just more than 10% of cases at the beginning of June to more than 80% of cases by mid July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring more than 10 other variants in addition to B.1.621 that's popping up in South Florida. Only time will provide more information about B.1.621, Sellick said. "If this thing is really more transmissible and goes from two percent [of infections] to 30 percent or to 60 percent; we don't want to see that," he said. "It has to be more fit than the delta variant. It would have to be more transmissible." It doesn't take much time for variants to spread, especially among unvaccinated people, said Preeti N. Malani, chief health officer and a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan. Malani pointed to drug company Biogen's annual leadership conference in February 2020, from which the coronavirus spread across Massachusetts and the country, as an example of how quickly variants can spread. "If you have a lot of unvaccinated people gathering and then they're going back home, you could have very rapid transmission in few weeks," she said. Concerns about variants really set in when they are more contagious or elude the vaccine, she said. Many worries about variants and further infections can be mitigated with more people choosing to get vaccinated, but that effort has become like a "whack-a-mole" initiative as new variants emerge and fears about vaccination hinder progress, she said. "This concept of risk is interesting. We understand we take risks with a lot of things," she said, mentioning car travel or late-night dog walks as examples. "With coronavirus, that risk seems so high to some to and others it's not. [The risk is] somewhere in the middle. The risk of vaccination is really rare. As we move forward, the risk is not going to go to zero anytime soon." As the Delta variant continues to cause havoc across the country along with other coronavirus variants making their debut in new infections, it might be time to reconsider travel and social plans even if one is vaccinated, experts say. "This is a novel coronavirus. We're still learning about it," Malani said. "Each of these variants bring new challenges."
Doesn't matter if the "large majority" comes in. There are many indians who come in illegally through the southern border. Remind me again what variant was in India? Hell, you were whining like a girl about 38 cases that went to North Carolina from Florida. You don't think at least 38 Indians cross the border to go into other states given the above illegal population estimate? do you believe the shit that comes out of your mouth or are you just hoping someone else will?