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I dont know why we need to keep learning this lesson. the first virus that came out of china was the first variant. it didnt have a greek letter designation. it killed more than 500,000 people here in this country. it was replaced by the alpha or uk variant, which now is the dominant strain and now we have the third variant, the delta variant. what this virus is doing, its trying to become more and more adapted to growth in people. therefore, it becomes more contagious. the more contagious that ...

Are belonging to the delta variant and in england, 80% of the country is having an increased number of cases, and looking onto all the consequences of the positive cases, 99% of those positive cases belonging to the delta variant and this is more spread into poor communities, communities where the vaccine hesitancy has been all in all population where the vaccine hasnt been rolled out at that scale, were able to have some barrier against the spread of infection. because of this delta variant bec...

Cases, 99% of those positive cases belonging to the delta variant and this is more spread into poor communities, communities where the vaccine hesitancy has been all in all population where the vaccine hasnt been rolled out at that scale, were able to have some barrier against the spread of infection. because of this delta variant becoming more and more transmissible and covering wider communities, even if it is not dangerous, it would take a larger toll on death and thats what were starting to ...

Unvaccinated? here is cnns dr. sanjay gupta. >> so 300 million doses administered is obviously a notable number in terms of overall immunity. not the 70% we wanted, but if you look at the amount of immunity from vaccines and add in the amount of immunity that comes from people having been naturally infected, were probably at functional herd immunity or soon to be there. numbers are coming down, hospitalizations, deaths, good news. big question is about the variants. it is interesting to look aro...

To enter the scene there, you saw the numbers pop back up. that was primarily obviously people that had not been vaccinated. so thats the concern here. we know this is a much more transmissible variant. the uk or alpha was 50% more transmissible than the strain before that, this is 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant. in scotland, a study showed people infected with the delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized. so this does appear to be more transmissible and serious also. tha...