COVID19 Delta Variant to Become Dominant Strain … Lockdowns?
In January 2020 it was clear something was coming. China was shutting down cities, Chinese citizens I knew were buying all the n95’s they could find and sending them home. Today, in June 2021 we all know about COVID-19. What’s interesting now is that there is the COVID-19 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) quickly spreading and the vaccines appear less effective than other variants.
At time of writing, Israel, United States and United Kingdom are some of the most vaccinated countries against COVID-19, with over half the population vaccinated.
It’s likely a considerably larger number of people have actually had COVID-19. In April 2020 it was estimated between 3x – 20x more people had COVID-19 than was tested. With that in mind, it’s safe to say 70+% of the population has an immune response of some kind.
Although there’s now a high level of trained immune responses, it appears the Delta variant is still growing fairly quickly in the UK.
