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    Re: Delta variant

    Glad you got it, Nancy. I agree with P, above.
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    Re: Delta variant

    Whilst Delta has so far proved to be the most contagious Covid variant of all, there's still no empirical evidence of it being any more deadly than the other previously dominant variants.

    Surely if it was proved to be more deadly, restrictions would have no doubt been re-imposed by now, or at least discussed by the govt.

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    Re: Delta variant

    Did I read on here or somewhere else that what usually happens with viruses is that as they mutate to try and become easier to transmit they become weaker? I don't know if this is true or not.

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    Re: Delta variant

    Quote Originally Posted by Catkins View Post
    Did I read on here or somewhere else that what usually happens with viruses is that as they mutate to try and become easier to transmit they become weaker? I don't know if this is true or not.
    Untrue, I'm afraid.

    A good read here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-coronavirus-evolve-be-less-deadly-180976288/

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    Re: Delta variant

    Quote Originally Posted by Pamplemousse View Post
    Untrue, I'm afraid.

    A good read here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...dly-180976288/
    Thanks I'll have a read later.

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    Re: Delta variant

    Quote Originally Posted by Pamplemousse View Post
    Untrue, I'm afraid.

    A good read here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...dly-180976288/
    An interesting read, PM.

    One slight caveat, the article was published last November when the Alpha variant was only just starting to take over and (apart from in India) also predates the Delta variant.

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    Re: Delta variant

    Assuming Lencoboy doesn't pick idiotic and irrelevant holes in this:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58354342

    Current enough for you?

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    Re: Delta variant

    Quote Originally Posted by Pamplemousse View Post
    Assuming Lencoboy doesn't pick idiotic and irrelevant holes in this:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58354342

    Current enough for you?
    Yes, especially as it's only been published today.

    Still doesn't tell us as to whether or not more people are actually dying of the Delta variant though.

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    Re: Delta variant

    Quote Originally Posted by Catkins View Post
    Did I read on here or somewhere else that what usually happens with viruses is that as they mutate to try and become easier to transmit they become weaker? I don't know if this is true or not.
    Yes, Gary, PM, AntysVee, fishman, Poppy and pulisa debated it:

    https://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showth...thread/page518

    Some do, some don't. In PM's link one part says Covid may follow the path of influenza. They just don't know.
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