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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by redisman on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:34PM (#28249718)
Deaths are down because we vaccinated all the old people who were dying in the first waves
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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by monocasa on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:52PM (#28250636)
Deaths are climbing again in the US and are expected to be above where they were the same time last year within a couple weeks.
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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by veemjeem on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:27PM (#28252111)
It's still lower than the peak of 3300 (7-day average) during the winter season, and that's when we had 250k cases daily. We're almost at 150k daily cases, but with only 1k daily deaths. At least based purely on numbers, the CFR is lower. The CFR is lower because most of the infections are happening in younger people.
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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by shreddit on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:36PM (#28249743)
Why would you vaccinate a dead person?
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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by bregma on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:17PM (#28250203)
They're less likely to refuse on political grounds.
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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by RC_ITR on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:41PM (#28249789)
We vaccinated all the old people, who were the population most at risk for death the first time.
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