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About risk. the hospitalization rates are still actually lower now than they were last summer with alpha variants. people aren't talking about that. they are talking about individual hospitalization reports in areas where you have low immunity and so it makes for great headlines. but again looking to the u.k. they show that the hospitalization rate amongst children has not increased with delta vair yanlt. that's good news. it is probably not more virulent in children. going forth to schools, all of our data, even the biggest one looking at over 90,000 children shows people who are bringing the...

The issue of the virus is that for example, if you compare it to the alpha variants, which is the one that and to see this. and you looked in the nasal fare next, of a person who is infected with the alpha variant, and you looked at the amounts of virus in the nasal fare next, and you now look at the amount in the nasal furness of someone who's been infected with the delta variant. it's up to 1000 times more in one of the things that's really concerning is if you get vaccinated, and you get a breakthrough infection we know that that happens and it's expected because no vaccine is 100 percent. ...

Higher than their previously dominant alpha variants. two doses of the vaccine are just as effective as a hospital admissions that the delta variant compared to the alpha variants. uk data backs this up. we know the delta variant is around 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant — or kent variant as it's also known. hospital admission rates suggest people infected by delta are twice as likely to be hospitalised than with alpha. now should emphasise, overall numbers are low compared with earlier this year. but this high transmissibility helps explain what's happening in the uk. these ar...