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ProfessorGAC

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5. While A Reasonable Concern...
Tue Jun 29, 2021, 06:38 PM
Jun 2021

...a CNN report today says 26% of all US cases of COVID are delta.
Yet, the Worldometer 7 day moving average of daily cases has been very gradually falling all month.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/?fbclid=IwAR2AveY4MLc1S8-4LeOXNjoIwLZ1Q8Y2RkwFtC9--4Jub3VGmLlCD277KHc
The Israel numbers of 50% of hospitalizations being vaccinated folks is an outlier compared to the US, Canada, Australia (although their delta percentage is quite low), & the UK. I think we need more time to see if that's a testing error outlier.
But, even with 26% of cases being delta, overall case numbers are, at worst, flat for the last 2 weeks. We went from 10% to 26% since June 7, but cases per day aren't bubbling up substantially.
I'm hoping that it won't be as bad as what they're reporting in Israel.
The efficacy of the vaccine against this appears good, and prior COVID patients may be still resistant.

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I just got my first two - in the form of a tax credit marybourg Jun 2021 #1
Congrats! orangecrush Jun 2021 #4
Wait until delta takes off SheltieLover Jun 2021 #2
Rather not get one orangecrush Jun 2021 #3
While A Reasonable Concern... ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #5
Please read #4 in this thread SheltieLover Jun 2021 #6
Why the mocking tone created by Nelson image? [nt] Nexus2 Jun 2021 #7
A reference to another thread orangecrush Jun 2021 #8
Oh, sorry, my mistake then! [nt] Nexus2 Jul 2021 #9
No prob! orangecrush Jul 2021 #10
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