"Delta variant ravages care home: 55 infected, 12 dead":
An investigation is underway into how a care home in Nivelles came to be infected with the Delta variant, while most residents and staff were fully vaccinated.
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"...the rise of the Delta variant, which is ravaging India and threatening the United Kingdom’s reopening, they recently announced the BC CDC would go back to whole genome sequencing of all positive samples.
The latest information from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control paints a troubling picture of the variant of concern that’s arguably causing the most concern in the world right now.
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"The variant, which is already the dominant strain in the United Kingdom and threatening the country’s plans to reopen, now accounts for more than 6% of cases in the U.S.
The highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 that spread rapidly in India is now in the U.S., worrying health experts with large portions of the country still unvaccinated
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"Freedom delayed: UK pushes back reopen date as delta variant surges
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"UK Covid infections rise as Delta variant dominates
There is some regional variation in infection rates and some good news on vaccine efficacy.
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"the delta variant had been detected in more than
80 countries around the world and that public health experts are keeping tabs on potential additional mutations to it.
In the United States, where officials said last week that the delta variant
accounts for around 6 percent of new cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added delta to its list of
“variants of concern.”
The variant may not yet upend U.S. reopening plans, but combined with the slower than expected pace of vaccinations in recent weeks, some
experts are urging caution.
“If you’re living in a part of the country where there’s a low degree of vaccination or you yourself are not vaccinated, you’re clearly vulnerable because this is basically covid-19 on steroids,” Andy Slavitt, a former senior adviser on the coronavirus response for the Biden administration, told The Washington Post’s Yasmeen Abutaleb.
The big problem is that the coronavirus has spread so far and wide that it has plenty of opportunity to mutate.
...Delta is
60 percent more infectious than alpha, a variant first detected in Britain, according to U.K. officials. There are also some studies that suggest it causes
greater rates of hospitalization, though the evidence there is still limited.