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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I...dealing with a variant that is 1000x more powerful and transmissible.[/quote]

Really? 1,000 times more powerful? There's absolutely no evidence that it's even 1x more powerful. In fact, if you follow the case and hospitalization rates in UK, it isn't even close to being as impactful as prior experiences.[/quote]

The Delta variant carries 1000x the viral load of the original virus. That is, "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."
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light

You can argue that it's "more powerful" or "transmissible" based on that data. People with the Delta variant also show symptoms more quickly than the original virus, likely because the fast replication of the virus once it's inside you.[/quote]

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