If the Delta variant catches you, will your COVID-19 symptoms be different than for people infected with earlier strains of the coronavirus?
It may seem like biotech companies are focused solely on developing vaccines for COVID-19, but some are hard at work on drugs that could treat those who become sick.I think the jury’s still out on that. One of the things that you have to keep in mind is the difference in symptoms could be a difference in the virus — but more likely it’s a difference in the person that’s infected.
A lot of people said COVID is becoming less and less deadly because mortality rates are going down. That’s not necessarily the case. The demographics have changed. If younger, healthier people are now the ones mostly getting infected, it’s not surprising the mortality is lower. It doesn’t mean the disease has changed. This means the people getting infected have changed.
Is the Delta variant more likely to cause breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated?Breakthrough infections can occur for a couple of different reasons. If your antibody levels decline over time, you might be susceptible to breakthrough infections. The other type of breakthrough infection scenario is where the virus itself has mutated, so that the immune response you have doesn’t work as well. So those are two different potential scenarios, and both of those are being monitored.
Delta has already spun off a similar variant known as Delta-plus. Is there a chance it could spin off another, more troubling variant?
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