Why Delta Variant is so different than the Original Covid-19?

The delta variant is a little different than the original COVID-19, in that it's more transmissible.

So that's what is truly concerning.

For fully vaccinated individuals, We're seeing that those individuals that break through are not experiencing severe disease are not being hospitalized.

For individuals that are not vaccinated at all that is of high concern.

We're thinking about our own health.

But we also have to think about our community, those individuals that are close to us, our family, our friends, our community, our neighbors.

Those individuals may have underlying medical conditions that they are aware of.

And there are also individuals that may have underlying medical conditions that they are not aware of.

The delta variant is highly transmissible.

When we compare that to the alpha variant, the one that was first observed in the UK, that tended to be a little bit more virulent.

However, the delta variant being more transmissible is making up the largest number of cases in the UK.

In the United States, it's making up over 50% of all of our new cases.

Why we should be concerned is that in some communities, some states, it's making up over 80%.

And in terms of hospitalizations of individuals with severe disease, it can and has been up to about 99% attributed to the delta variant.

These deaths, hospitalizations, at this point with the vaccines they are preventable.

Variants are really smart. And they try to survive. And they evolve.

And that's why the vaccination is so important.

Because we do want to prevent new variants that get smarter.

Vaccinations will slow down the propagation of new variants. And that's why it is important.

What we do not want to see is a variant that is highly virulent, that would cause severe disease, hospitalization, and death.

For some communities in particular, rural and semirural, that do not have easy access to clinics, medical hospitals that have the resources to take on and treat the patients, these are the communities that we really need to worry about.