DELTA VARIANT AS CONTAGIOUS AS CHICKENPOX

  • 30/07/2021

The Delta variant of the coronavirus causes more severe illness than the earlier versions and it is as contagious as chickenpox,saying an internal document prepared by the top American health agency.The Washington Post, which first reported these findings, said the internal document makes the case for health officials to “acknowledge the war has changed”.


The report prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is based on outside studies and unpublished data from outbreak investigations, shows the Delta variant jumps from people to people more swiftly than the viruses that cause Ebola, MERS, SARS, the common cold, the seasonal flu and smallpox. It is as contagious as chickenpox, according to news reports citing the CDC document.

The document indicates vaccinated people, though protected from severe illness, can transmit the Delta virus as much as the unvaccinated. If infected, vaccinated people were found carrying the same amount of measurable viral load as those unvaccinated and it was this finding, the news reports suggested, that was behind the CDC’s course-reversal on masks.

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