ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Delta is not 95% less lethal than the UK variant. The bulk of the reduction is certainly due to vaccine. It’s still pretty deadly for the hospitalized, which suggests it is the vaccine keeping you out of the hospital to begin with. If you are unvaccinated and end up hospitalized, you are in considerable danger. Thankfully for the vaccinated, the number of breakthrough serious infections is quite low.Or the mortality of Delta is much less and could be a combination of both.
As virus evolve, they tend to become more contagious but less fatal.