CDC leaked COVID powerpoint

[dragonyphoenix]

Takeaways as I understand them

with Delta variant (vs previous variants)

• people infectious longer
• higher viral load
• slightly more dangerous but much more transmissible
• vaccinated have same viral load as unvaccinated
• vaccinated more likely to get COVID (but disease not as severe in vaccinated)
  

any variant

• vaccinated much less likely to be hospitalized or die
• vaccinated less likely to get ill than unvaccinated

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Comments

[dragonyphoenix]

That's a really good point. "used as experimental subjects without their consent" That had not occurred to me even though I've been aware of that issue. I'd been thinking of the people who listened to and believed Trump.

[silveradept]

They are loud and vocal and have a lot of people who will enable them, at least until something smacks them upside the head and gets them on board, but they're also a minority, as best I can tell, compared to people who need someone trustworthy to talk to, or people who need getting vaccinated to become convenient enough that they don't have to miss a day of work, or don't have to travel to very far away places, or they don't have people asking about the insurance they don't have, even if the vaccine is free. That kind of thing.