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applegrove

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Thu Jul 29, 2021, 09:02 PM Jul 2021

Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox [View all]

Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox

July 29, 2021 at 9:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/29/delta-variant-spreads-as-easily-as-chickenpox/

"SNIP.....

An internal CDC document says “the delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox,” the Washington Post reports.

“The document strikes an urgent note, revealing the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus, leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold.”

.....SNIP"

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Therefore an R0 of 10-12, roughly five times the original model Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #1
Everyone used to get chicken pox over time, before the vaccine. Over years, applegrove Jul 2021 #2
Yep. This is a whole new shit sandwich. Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #4
I just looked it up. Marius25 Jul 2021 #14
Hmmm. I don't remember chickenpox spreading all marybourg Jul 2021 #3
It was rare for someone to make it out of childhood w/out having had chicken applegrove Jul 2021 #5
But parents had to ensure their kids got it, by taking advantage marybourg Jul 2021 #7
I got it first greenjar_01 Jul 2021 #10
I actually made it through childhood w/ out coming down w/ it. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #9
You obviously had strong immunity as a kid. We did too. Plus mom being a doctor would applegrove Jul 2021 #12
Pretty much my whole elementary school class got chicken pox in '78 Withywindle Jul 2021 #20
Here's the dirty secret about "chicken pox parties" haele Jul 2021 #13
I had chicken pox as a kid. Then i had shingles as a teen. It was a organic applegrove Jul 2021 #21
Anti-vaxx crowds hears this and thinks: oh so, COVID parties? underpants Jul 2021 #6
I think they already came up with that one, back when it first started. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #11
Next shoe to drop will be CDC backtracking on the need for a booster shot crimycarny Jul 2021 #8
Hope they get their head connected to their ass on this boy howdy quick Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #16
Israel will begin booster shots this Sunday for those over 60 womanofthehills Jul 2021 #17
I just saw that crimycarny Jul 2021 #18
Thatll be fun in a month when we put 50 million kids back in classrooms... Volaris Jul 2021 #15
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2021 #19
And many won't even have masks requirements. LisaL Jul 2021 #22
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