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Originally Posted by nomadking
My post was about the Delta variant, not Australia.
With near 100% household transmission and transmission from just passing by somebody(although probably without a mask), that is a serious matter.
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*If* your population is vaccinated, it is not a serious matter. Viruses like measles have a vastly greater R rate than any covid variant. In an unvaccinated population that’s a big problem. In a vaccinated population it isn’t. The same principle applies here.
Australia’s problem is not the delta variant. Australia’s problem is it faces the delta variant largely unvaccinated.
Delta’s transmissibility, particularly that it is around twice as transmissible as the original Wuhan virus, is not news. Emerging data have been indicating this for a couple of weeks now.
(Edit) you can see this in action in this graph showing that the tight correlation between infections and hospitalisations in Scotland was broken in March. Hospitalisation simply isn’t rising with infection any more.
From:
https://data.spectator.co.uk/