It’s always important to remember the role that vaccine patents played in creating this disaster.
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Didnt they say the same thing about Delta a few months ago? And somehow nothing happened.
Delta is the dominant variant now…
First time i heard about that, but it seems you are right (though search only gives me stats for the united states). More importantly, it was mentioned that Delta would be more dangerous, but at least in my country, the number of cases has been relatively low since september.
Many countries are still struggling while the measures taken would probably have gotten rid of the original variant by now.
I wouldn’t say nothing happened. US cases are back to their highest levels already.
Feels like a click-baity headline. What does “dominate and overwhelm the world” mean here? Feels like it’s been written to be vague enough to imply it might be an existential threat without actually saying so.
“health-care systems could be overwhelmed, even if only 1% or 2% of the cases end up in hospital.”
“For now, however, Leong said we should… not be overly concerned” oh, ok thenIt means that the variant is very likely to quickly spread across the population as we saw happen with Delta. High rate of infection with reduced effectiveness of vaccination leads to much higher rate of hospitalization. Given how things are going in places like US currently, I do think being concerned is a valid position to take.
