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Re:NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit ... by q1w2 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:11PM (#28498013)
> Deadly? Not really,

The Delta variant has a case fatality rate in the US of 0.1% for the general population, and 2% for those over 50.

That's not nothing. There are a LOT of people over 50 in a hospital.

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Re:NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit ... by nradov on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:56PM (#28498241)
Case fatality rates are meaningless because the majority of infections are never counted as official "cases". The CDC estimates the fatality rates at 0.6% for the general population. Vaccination cuts that fatality risk way down.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

There is no reliable evidence of a higher IFR for the Delta variant.

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Re:NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit ... by op00to on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:56AM (#28510350)
Now do people who live but whose bodies are destroyed by the virus.
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