D&D and the rising pandemic

[AnotherGuy]

Honestly, if it wasn't for the risk of the virus mutating in one of them and becoming a threat to me and mine, I wouldn't care if they Darwin themselves or make themselves dumber. Their stupidity poses a significant and unacceptable risk to the rest of us, though, so something has to change.

I didn't know this, does the virus mutate only in the non-vaccinated? Can anyone share a link please to the study.

 

[Horwath]

I didn't know this, does the virus mutate only in the non-vaccinated? Can anyone share a link please to the study.

I am not sure by how much, but as virus lives longer in unvaccinated person, it multiplies more times and every time a virus multiplies in host cell, there is a chance for mutation.

 

[Maxperson]

I didn't know this, does the virus mutate only in the non-vaccinated? Can anyone share a link please to the study.

No, but in the vaccinated it has vastly smaller numbers of viral load, which means a much, much smaller chance of mutation and even if it does mutate, a much, much smaller chance of being passed out of the body. And then if everyone else vaccinated, a much smaller chance of being picked up by the other person.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I am not sure by how much, but as virus lives longer in unvaccinated person, it multiplies more times and every time a virus multiplies in host cell, there is a chance for mutation.

Yeah, its not so much a binary does/doesn't as a probability thing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Any infected host provides an opportunity to mutate.

Speaking of which, a variant from South America has popped up in Florida.

 

[CleverNickName]

We were doing so well, and then they lifted the restrictions.

If only there was a way we could have known what would happen every time we lifted the restrictions.

OH WAIT

 

[Thomas Shey]

Honestly, even the restrictions lifting would have probably been okay if there were significantly less vax resistants.

 

[Zardnaar]

Australia deploying the army to enforce lockdown come Monday.

Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown

 

[Horwath]

Australia deploying the army to enforce lockdown come Monday.

Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bad news, good news: most of the people- nearly 80%- in a recent outbreak in MA were vaccinated. And most of the infected displayed symptoms. 89% of the infected tested positive for the Delta variant.

However, there were only 5 hospitalizations, with one death.

So, while Delta may be causing a much higher percentage of breakthrough infections, the vaccines are still keeping people out of the hospitals.

No deaths, few hospitalizations, but 74% of those testing positive for COVID-19 in Massachusetts outbreak were vaccinated

A federal investigation into a COVID-19 outbreak earlier this month in a Massachusetts county that's home to Cape Cod found that 74% of the 469 infections...

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