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Originally Posted by speeder
It was my understanding that the Delta variant is MORE virulent, (transmissible), not less than the previous version. By a factor of two, if not mistaken.
I just got off the phone with my brother, who has both had Covid19 and gotten vaccinated, in that order. In fact, he got vaccinated almost immediately after having the disease, in order to be able to travel to the U.S. from Europe(?) I can't remember the details on that. Both he and his wife got the J&J shot in France, they chose it so that they would not have to wait around for a month for the second shot.
We were talking about the large number of people in the U.S. who choose not to get vaccinated and what parts of the country this is occurring. I haven't been following the news closely but he said that you can observe the "heat map" in the NYT of hospitalizations in Florida, the south and places like Missouri. The virus is just ripping through, having its way with those populations 1.5 years after it started. He said that he's kind of fatalistic about the Delta variant, he thinks that everyone is going to get it and the vaccinated will survive but we might reach herd immunity the hard way.
It's really sad. I don't wish death on people just because we disagree on politics, unlike some here, if I'm supposed to believe the hyperbole. It's a strange situation.
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You seen that recent news article about the cruise ship that came down with Covid outbreak? Everybody on the ship was vaccinated.
Check out the countries with high degrees of vaccination, like Iceland. Look at who’s getting infected.