COVID-19 Update

Yesterday, August 4th, 2021

10,118 people were killed by COVID-19

99.996 % of them were not fully vaccinated

World

New Cases:   638,585 (⬆︎ .34%)
New Deaths:    10,118 (⬆︎ .24%)

USA

New Cases:   112,279 (⬆︎ .31%)
New Deaths:         656 (⬆︎ .10%)

USA Vaccination Scorecard

Total Vaccinations: 192.6 million (58.0%)
Fully Vaccinated:    165.3 million (49.8%)

As The Red Plague continues its thoroughly preventable rampage, we see the effect of idiots clustering together to provide a breeding ground for SARS-CoV-2, allowing it to do what living organisms do - mutate and evolve in order to survive and propagate.

WaPo:

Here’s what we know about the delta-plus variant

South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta-plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant that was first detected in India and has since thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic.

But what do we know about “delta plus,” yet another new variant causing alarm among governments and health officials? First identified in Europe in March, the variant is also known as B. 1.617.2.1 or AY.1.

It has been detected in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and India.

Last month, experts in India labeled the variant one of concern and warned that it appeared to be more transmissible than most. Citing studies, the country’s health ministry said that the variant has the ability to bind more easily to lung cells and could be resistant to therapies used to treat the infection.
Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh announced Friday that up to 70 cases of the delta-plus variant were detected in genome sequencing as of July 23, Hindustan Times reported.

How India has weathered the devastation of the delta variant and how it has named the delta-plus variant as one of concern should place public health leaders on notice, said James E.K. Hildreth, president and chief executive of Meharry Medical College.

“We’ve got to be more willing to consider observations made in other countries dealing with [the coronavirus],” he said, noting that the relative of the highly contagious delta variant is concerning. “Again, we saw what happen with delta in India and how quickly it spread … Why would we think the delta-plus variant would be different?”

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium has since said that the delta-plus variant is unlikely to be more transmissible than the delta variant and trends have yet to emerge, according to Hindustan Times.

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