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2021-06-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

CDC director says she expects the Indian 'Delta' variant to become dominant in the US in 'one or two months' as the number of people infected with strain in the UK rises by 80% in a week

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-19 09:34|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Biden warns unvaccinated Americans to 'act now' against the 'deadlier' Indian Delta variant that's 'more easily transmissible' but appears to RULE out any more lockdowns

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-19 09:36|| 2021-06-19 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 From Skidmark’s link:

During his remarks he said that 65 per cent of Americans have now gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

After 300 million doses given, I think we’ll be ok.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-19 12:33|| 2021-06-19 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Just in time for school, eh?

Drop it already.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-19 13:21|| 2021-06-19 13:21|| Front Page Top

#4 So what do the real experts say?

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-19 13:22|| 2021-06-19 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 As of Friday, the strain makes up 10% of all cases in the U.S., which is nearly double from the 6% of cases it accounted for last week

Meanwhile, the number of new cases in the U.S. are down 50% from last week (my tabulation from John Hopkins numbers).

Math trumps (sorry) hysterical journalists.

Posted by Bobby 2021-06-19 13:44|| 2021-06-19 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 So what do the real experts say?

Pay Day is on the 1st.

This 'variant', all the 'variants', are old enough to be named, talked about, considered racist, and re-named. They have been around the world ten times now. We have already suffered 'the variants' and didn't notice in a macro sense.

"One or Two Months"

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-19 14:02|| 2021-06-19 14:02|| Front Page Top

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