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Absolutely False. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-things-to-know-delta-variant-covid https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-things-to-know-delta-var... Delta
by tigershark 5y ago
Absolutely False.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-things-to-know-delta-variant-covid https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-things-to-know-delta-var...
Delta’s quick growth rate has been especially dramatic, says F. Perry Wilson, MD, a Yale Medicine epidemiologist. Delta was spreading 50% faster than Alpha, which was 50% more contagious than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, he says. “In a completely unmitigated environment—where no one is vaccinated or wearing masks—it’s estimated that the average person infected with the original coronavirus strain will infect 2.5 other people,” Dr. Wilson says. “In the same environment, Delta would spread from one person to maybe 3.5 or 4 other people.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369565/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369565/
“ We found a mean R0 of 5.08, which is much higher than the R0 of the ancestral strain of 2.79.”
Please stop spreading misinformation.