Delta coronavirus variant: Scientists brace for impact

An excerpt from the article so named in Nature scientific journal. We are not out of the woods yet, particularly for the unvaccinated. To support or ignore the unvaccinated participating in social activities without masks is tantamount to complicity in the spike to come.

"Delta, also known as B.1.617.2, belongs to a viral lineage first identified in India during a ferocious wave of infections there in April and May. The lineage grew rapidly in some parts of the country, and showed signs of partial resistance to vaccines.[...] Delta is moderately resistant to vaccines, particularly in people who have received just a single dose.

"Delta seems to be around 60% more transmissible than the already highly infectious Alpha variant (also called B.1.1.7) identified in the United Kingdom in late 2020. [...] Preliminary evidence from England and Scotland suggests that people infected with Delta are about twice as likely to end up in hospital, compared with those infected with Alpha.

"Delta is also on the rise in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and southeast [...and] rising fast. [...] Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health in Shreveport, expects Delta to eventually become dominant in the United States."