COVID Delta twice as deadly twice as easy to spread Republican states face Fall disaster

Delta is much more deadly than the original COVID-19 strain and spreads very, VERY easily. Those unmasked young people on vacation in states with low vaccination rates are going to spread this latest infection rapidly and are likely to the hardest hit as younger people are reportedly a high percentage of hospitalized patients in the UK.

Think you are safe because you actually had COVID? Think again, in India where it originated people who had recovered from the original COVID caught Delta and many died. Completed vaccinations DO protect from Delta, but partial vaccination doesn't according to UK reports.

COVID is back, will put many younger people in hospitals or dirt naps especially in southern and mountain states with low vaccination rates.

But researchers are still learning why it spreads so much more easily and hits harder.

"One important mutation, called P681R, changes an amino acid at a spot directly beside the furin cleavage site, where a human enzyme cuts the protein, a key step enabling the virus to invade human cells. In the Alpha variant, a mutation at that site made cleavage more efficient; a preprint published in late May showed Delta’s different change makes furin cleavage even easier. The researchers suggest this could make the virus more transmissible." https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/delta-variant-triggers-dangerous-new-phase-pandemic

And the really bad news from the same source, "Data from England and Scotland indicate that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines offer slightly less protection against symptomatic infections from the new variant than from Alpha. People who have received just one shot of vaccine—as many U.K. residents have—are especially vulnerable."

With the reddest states also the less vaccinated and less careful about mask wearing the race will be on this Fall and Winter to see if jerrymandering can keep ahead of Republican death rates.