1/🧵 Why have #COVID19 hospital admissions skyrocketed? 🗣
The virus’s spike protein acts like VELCRO in our airway. #DeltaVariant has modified the #SpikeProtein to make it SUPER-VELCRO. When exposed, you’re way more apt to get infected.
#Yale Press: bit.ly/3lKvJqs
The virus’s spike protein acts like VELCRO in our airway. #DeltaVariant has modified the #SpikeProtein to make it SUPER-VELCRO. When exposed, you’re way more apt to get infected.
#Yale Press: bit.ly/3lKvJqs
2/ “In a completely unmitigated environment—where no one is vaccinated or wearing masks—the average person infected with original coronavirus will infect 2.5 others. In the same environment, #Delta infects >4 other people & grows more quickly.”
3/ Additionally, once the infection takes root in you (most often a person NOT #vaccinated), it has modified itself to increase viral shedding 1000X (ie, 1,000 virions for every 1 that was shed with original SARS-CoV-2.
go.nature.com/3CpHadb
go.nature.com/3CpHadb
4/💥This is the July 23, 2021 #DeltaVariant reference about super spreading of #COVID19…
“viral loads of Delta infections, when first PCR+, were on average ∼1000 times greater compared to A/B lineage infections”
bit.ly/3lK1gJ0
“viral loads of Delta infections, when first PCR+, were on average ∼1000 times greater compared to A/B lineage infections”
bit.ly/3lK1gJ0
5/ Note this dire warning: “Disease control activities should be adjusted in order to account for the increasing prevalence of the Delta variant worldwide.” 🌍
Are we responding adequately? NO!
Are we responding adequately? NO!
6/🎥 Do you want to hear an elegant explanation of how solid the science is for the #Vaccine? Please watch @ScientistSwanda teach (and pass it on):
7/
Realize that w #Delta you are in a situation in which you walk past a person who coughs in the Mall or Kroger, and you have 1,000 times more virions with SUPER Velcro blasting over your cells to reproduce and spread #COVID into all blood vessels & organs of your body!
Realize that w #Delta you are in a situation in which you walk past a person who coughs in the Mall or Kroger, and you have 1,000 times more virions with SUPER Velcro blasting over your cells to reproduce and spread #COVID into all blood vessels & organs of your body!
8/fin
1. Delta is 2-3X more contagious
It has shorter incubation (4 vs 5 days)
2. Infected people shed >1,000X more virus
3. Unvaccinated people are at greatest risk including young
4. Delta leads to outbreaks where vaccine uptake is low
H/T @DMAronoff
1. Delta is 2-3X more contagious
It has shorter incubation (4 vs 5 days)
2. Infected people shed >1,000X more virus
3. Unvaccinated people are at greatest risk including young
4. Delta leads to outbreaks where vaccine uptake is low
H/T @DMAronoff
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