How a variant can change everything.
We had 5 months of declining deaths after vaccines. After all, the proportion who were unvaccinated & susceptible existed during these months as well. But delta was just settling in
Once delta established itself, we are at >2000 deaths/day.
We had 5 months of declining deaths after vaccines. After all, the proportion who were unvaccinated & susceptible existed during these months as well. But delta was just settling in
Once delta established itself, we are at >2000 deaths/day.
Whatever protection we had against original strain of Covid, disappeared with delta. delta was more transmissible. Taking off masks too early didn't help.
Deaths are very high with delta, but we would have faced a much bigger crisis without vaccines.
Deaths are very high with delta, but we would have faced a much bigger crisis without vaccines.
Based on Israel study on effect of vaccines in reducing deaths and hospitalizations, and knowing what happened in India, we probably saved >100,000 lives in the US because of vaccinations. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Our greatest worry should be the rise of a new variant.
Here is @kenjeong explaining so clearly what I'm struggling to say, which is that we were surprised by the delta variant, and how delta changed everything.
https://twitter.com/kenjeong/status/1440184241401176069
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