CDC Warns of Rapid, Troubling Rise of Delta Variant

[appalachiablue]

- CDC warns of rapid, troubling rise of Delta variant. CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that U.S. COVID-19 cases are up around 11% over last week, as the highly infectious Delta variant becomes the dominant coronavirus strain in the country. July 8, 2021.

[pwb]

1. Did I miss the Bravo and Charlie variant.

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[Phoenix61]

2. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, then Delta. It's the Greek alphabet.nt

[pwb]

4. O k. My thoughts were military.

So did I miss Beta and Gamma?

[getagrip_already]

5. they decided to stop using countries of discovery in variant names....

The variants that included country names were causing discrimination.

Delta is the former india variant. There are also uk, south africa, and a couple of others. For the most part, the other variants aren't causing the problems delta is causing, so you don't hear about them much.

[Phoenix61]

8. Yes. Beta was in England. I didn't hear anything about gamma. nt

[IronLionZion]

3. WHO Naming Scheme

https://www.democraticunderground.com/114225674

[Quixote1818]

6. Sounds like it's mostly a problem in areas with low vaccination rates. nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. Cases went from...

1 yesterday to 9 today in my low vaccinated Eastern TN county. (Campbell)

Here comes Delta!