The last scare is underway. Delta is an increasing share of Covid cases around the world, causing cases in many places to rise.
Describing Delta as the last scare seems like it could be premature. There are lots of people around the world who are not yet vaccinated, and who are catching the disease, and each of those transmissions is effectively a chance for a new variant. Unless there’s a solid reason for thinking that Delta is as effective as this virus can get, surely we need to admit the possibility of future variants that are stronger still, and hence that there may be more scares to come?
And the biggie of those potential future scares would be if we get variants that are more effective at escaping vaccine immunity, right?
Describing Delta as the last scare seems like it could be premature. There are lots of people around the world who are not yet vaccinated, and who are catching the disease, and each of those transmissions is effectively a chance for a new variant. Unless there’s a solid reason for thinking that Delta is as effective as this virus can get, surely we need to admit the possibility of future variants that are stronger still, and hence that there may be more scares to come?
And the biggie of those potential future scares would be if we get variants that are more effective at escaping vaccine immunity, right?
Twitter is saying there’s literally a Delta Plus variant already. We don’t know what it does.