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clarge1120
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CDC Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagi...
This was entirely predictable. Viral variants are always more infectious (easier to spread) than the initial virus. Those variants, however, are also always weaker (less damaging) than the initial virus. It is true in every case of viral variants.
phendrenad2
on July 30, 2021
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According to the CDC doc, the delta variant is both more contagious and slightly more deadly, so it isn't "true in every case of viral variants".
nibsfive
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It's more absolute deadly, not more relative deadly.
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