07-20-2021, 10:15 AM
(07-20-2021, 07:01 AM)LP link Wrote:US media are labelling the Delta variant as The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated
In areas with low vaccination rates hospitalisation cases are up this week by as much as 40%, averaging 33% increase in states with less than 50% vaccination. If the Delta variant follows the same trend line of the other variants, US health officials have warned deaths will start rising about 2 to 3 weeks behind the hospitalisations.
In countries with high vaccination rates, places like Israel, the bulk of the rising new cases are coming from groups previously unvaccinated. In Israel's case this is the u16 age group who were previously excluded from getting Pfizer. Now they have lowered the age cut-off to 12.
This is the reality of Delta variant summed up in a picture, because it's infecting young people;
[img width=550]https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-1233844176-800x532.jpeg[/img]
Anthony Church says farewell to his daughter through a pain of glass, she is in hospital ICU recovering from COVID-19.
Feck that for a joke, go and get vaccinated!
Heart breaking to see that picture [member=153]LP[/member] ... how do you comfort that guy in such a scene

