The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious. It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...iant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light After months of data collection, scientists agree: The delta variant is the most contagious version of the coronavirus worldwide. It spreads about 225% faster than the original version of the virus, and it's currently dominating the outbreak in the United States. A new study, published online Wednesday, sheds light on why. It finds that the variant grows more rapidly inside people's respiratory tracts and to much higher levels, researchers at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported. On average, people infected with the delta variant had about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain of the coronavirus, the study reported. In addition, after someone catches the delta variant, the person likely becomes infectious sooner. On average, it took about four days for the delta variant to reach detectable levels inside a person, compared with six days for the original coronavirus variant. In the study, scientists analyzed COVID-19 patients involved in the first outbreak of the delta variant in mainland China, which occurred between May 21 and June 18 in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. The researchers measured the levels of virus in 62 people involved in that outbreak and compared them with the levels in 63 patients infected in 2020 with an early version of the virus. Their findings suggest that people who have contracted the delta variant are likely spreading the virus earlier in the course of their infection. And the scientists underscore the importance of quarantining immediately for 14 days after coming into contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends. Or even better, getting fully vaccinated. Preliminary data shows that in some U.S. states, 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths in the past few months were among people who weren't vaccinated, the CDC's director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said Thursday at the White House. "We know that the delta variant ... is currently surging in pockets of the country with low vaccination rates," Walensky said. "We also know that our authorized vaccines prevent severe disease, hospitalization and death from the delta variant."
How the Delta Variant Tore Through an Undervaxxed Gymnastics Center Low vaccination rates, a highly transmissible variant, and disturbingly lax social distancing rules in the facility fueled an outbreak among teenage gymnasts. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-delta-variant-tore-through-an-oklahoma-gym-facility-cdc-report
I still have yet to see a person I personally know or know of that has gotten Covid twice,even with Delta spreading like wildfire. My opinion currently stays the same that antibodies from prior infection is the best vaccine.Its pretty clear they will be recommending booster shots before the end of the year.Thats 3 or 4 shots in less than a year while people who had Covid over a year ago still aren't getting it a 2nd time.
They Reap what they Sow. Don't misunderstand, I'm not blaming the gymnastics. In contrast, I'm blaming the adults that are in control / managing the Oklahoma Gym facility and that includes the parents of the gymnasts. They should have been doing some sort'uv testing on a daily basis after deciding to relax the social distancing rules within the gym facility because they were aware of the Delta variant starting to get a foot into the door of the community where the facility was located. The disturbing aspect, at the time of the outbreak...only 25% had been vaccinated in the community. Worst, one unvaccinated person landed in the ICU...probably someone with an underlying medical condition regardless if the person knew they had the condition or didn't know. Yet, the article doesn't say if that unvaccinated person that had to be hospitalized in the ICU was an adult or teenager...it just implies it was a teenager. Reminder, at this point in the Pandemic with the available vaccines as the United States has reopen up in almost everywhere of the country...anyone getting infected or worst (hospitalization or death)... It was completely avoidable. In fact, I'm hearing more stories of people being fired from their jobs in the United States after being caught lying about their vaccination / illness and then infecting co-workers. Yet, have not heard of any cases in which someone has died from Covid because of the negligence by a co-worker that lied about their Covid status. wrbtrader
Let’s examine the article.... 194 people were exposed. 74 were eligible for vaccination, article says most were not without giving details. Out of the 194 exposed, 47 people came down with the virus. Median age was 14, it states 13 were eligible for vaccine meaning most were kids. Out of the 47, 2 people ended up in the hospital, adults since they were eligible, 1 icu, no deaths. Other than catching a cold, zero concern for kids. Not bad odds for adults either. Quite the boggy-man.
Yet you ignore 40% of the infected will still have long COVID symptoms after 7 months -- including those not hospitalized. Long Covid: 40% still have symptoms after seven months Four out of ten people still report symptoms of Covid-19 more than seven months after infection, according to a study by the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE). https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/long-covid--40--still-have-symptoms-after-seven-months/46763660 The study, published on Tuesday, was conducted among 410 people who tested positive for Covid-19 but who did not require hospitalisation. Of these, 39% reported symptoms persisting seven to nine months after infection. Fatigue was the most common lasting effect (20.7%), followed by loss of taste or smell (16.8%), shortness of breath (11.7%) and headache (10%). The results are comparable to international studies of the same type, but with a smaller number of participants. (More at above url)
Those are the numbers we know about the facility and we do know that contact tracing was started late. Simply, there's a bigger unknown number and we do not know if someone has become severely ill or death in the unknown numbers. One may assume there's "no spread" beyond the Oklahoma Gym Facility but that's the danger with any infectious virus because that's how the spread moves quickly from one community to the next community... Too many people think its just an outbreak at that Oklahoma Gym Facilty...very similar to the early thought back in March 2020...people thought in error its just that "nursing home". Thus, there was in fact quite the boggy-man with that same familiarity back in March 2020 that eventually lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and now in 2021...the virus is attacking people much younger. The good news...the United States is better at managing the virus, there are better medical treatments, very little re-infections and a larger part of the population is vaccinated. Yet, if the person that was hospitalized and in the ICU...if that person was a teenage gymnast...obviously the Delta Variant would be the boogy-man to the parents. Simply, we know have historical data via last years outbreak about how the boogy-man developed in the United States...people didn't take it serious enough to prevent a lockdown and prevent losing the one thing they valued the most...their rights. The boggy-man is now avoidable. With that said, here's an interesting way to view the Covid Delta Variant and Vaccines. If you can easily dismiss the seriousness of the Covid Delta Variant because only one person at one Oklahoma Gym Facility was hospitalized / ICU... You should be just as dismissive of one person having an adverse reaction after being vaccinated from one vaccination center. Thus, that would also be quite the boggy-man from being vaccinated. wrbtrader
I know a few people in the United States (South Dakota and Kentucky) that have Long-Haul Covid symptoms. One it took her about 4 months to get back to work but still have lingering small problems and the other has been on disability since his one month stay in the ICU. He's still at a rehab facility since December 2020...both of them in their 40s. That's a burden on their family and society because these are people that are not in their retirement years...these are people that should still be able to contribute to society. Both have told me that had vaccines been available the summer of 2020...they would have taken the vaccine but that's easy to now say with hindsight of what they're currently going through after having contracted Covid. wrbtrader