We Need To Protect Our Unvaccinated Kids From The COVID-19 Delta Variant Delta infection can feel 'more like a bad cold' in younger people. And because it seems like just a head cold, they don’t take their symptoms seriously or get tested.
. Incidentally, the Alpha variant earlier this year was also designated as such — and really, we should have learned from that experience but did we? No. The answer is, no.has found Delta patients two times more likely to be hospitalized than those infected with the Alpha variant. Even if that is not found to be true over the long term, it is at least as dangerous as other variants — and really, come on.
In fact, headache, sore throat, and runny nose are now the most frequently purported symptoms in the UK along with chills, appetite loss, and muscle aches. According to Professor Tim Spector who runs the study, the Delta infection can feel “more like a bad cold” in younger people. And because it seems like just a head cold, they don’t take their symptoms seriously or get tested.Depending on an area’s vaccination rates , there may be hotspots of the Delta variant popping up all over the country. This usually happens when pockets of low vaccinations are surrounded by areas with higher vaccination rates — and can allow the virus to popcorn from one poorly vaccinated area to another.
As always, containment of the pandemic is a race between vaccination rates and how quickly the virus can jump and spread amongst unvaccinated people. The worry is that if the Delta variant keeps infecting people, the U.S. could see an increase in new COVID cases and lead us back to a shutdown.This really cannot be stressed enough. The most vulnerable to the Delta variant are the unvaccinated, kids and young people, and the immune compromised.
This is common sense, right? If you’re not vaccinated, of course you’re going to be more vulnerable to a more virulent strain. It also makes sense that children are at risk because vaccines for children under 12 are not yet approved (though they’re
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