%u2018What%20We%20Did%20Before%20Just%20Isn%u2019t%20Working%u2019%3A%20Delta%20Variant%20Threatens%20to%20Overwhelm%20Russia%20-%20The%20Moscow%20Times

On June 10, the chief doctor of Moscow's flagship Covid-19 hospital, Denis Protsenko, told the Echo Moskvy radio station that patients were not responding to previously effective treatments.

What We Did Before Just Isn't Working-- Delta Variant Threatens to Overwhelm Russia - The Moscow Times

%u2018What We Did Before Just Isn%u2019t Working%u2019%3A Delta Variant Threatens to Overwhelm Russia - The Moscow Times Russia only has a 13% vaccination rate. I would argue that a country's vaccination rate is an indicator of their social and infrastructure health, but look at Japan's, which is ridiculously low.

New Covid study hints at long-term loss of brain tissue, Dr. Scott Gottlieb warns

New Covid study hints at long-term loss of brain tissue, Dr. Scott Gottlieb warns “You could compensate for that over time, so the symptoms of that may go away, but you’re never going to regain the tissue if, in fact, it’s being destroyed as a result of the virus,” said Gottlieb, who serves on the board of Covid vaccine-maker Pfizer. Oh my.

Covid delta: WHO says variant is the fastest and fittest and will 'pick off' most vulnerable

Covid delta: WHO says variant is the fastest and fittest and will 'pick off' most vulnerable “We can protect those vulnerable people, those front-line workers,” Ryan said, “and the fact that we haven’t, as Director-General [Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus] has said, again and again, is a catastrophic moral failure at a global level.” I would argue that another moral failure is everyone who has intentionally conveyed the message that the virus isn't a threat in order to sell alternative cures, promote themselves, or keep their businesses open.

Cleavon MD on Twitter: "Delta variant is rampant. 83 patients with COVID hospitalized at this hospital in Missouri. Almost all unvaccinated people. The morale among hospital staff is low." / Twitter

Cleavon MD on Twitter: "Delta variant is rampant. 83 patients with COVID hospitalized at this hospital in Missouri. Almost all unvaccinated people. The morale among hospital staff is low." / Twitter Rural, white evangelicals in parts of Missouri are being smitten by an uncaring virus.

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The%20Delta%20Variant%20Could%20Create%20%u201CTwo%20Americas%u201D%20Of%20COVID%2C%20Experts%20Warn: It%u2019s%20unclear%20whether%20Delta%20will%20dominate%20as%20quickly%20and%20totally%20as%20it%20did%20in%20the%20UK%2C%20where%20it%20replaced%20an%20outbreak%20driven%20almost%20entirely%20by%20the%20Alpha%20variant.%20In%20the%20US%2C%20a%20larger%20number%20of%20competing%20variants%20are%20circulating%2C%20making%20it%20harder%20to%20predict%20what%20will%20happen%2C%20Bette%20Korber%2C%20a%20computational%20biologist%20at%20the%20Los%20Alamos%20National%20Laboratory%20in%20New%20Mexico%2C%20told%20BuzzFeed%20News.%20But%20she%20expects%20Delta%20to%20become%20the%20most%20common%20variant%20in%20the%20US%20within%20weeks.%20%u201CIt%u2019s%20really%20moving%20quickly%2C%u201D%20Korber%20said.

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The%20Delta%20Variant%20Could%20Create%20%u201CTwo%20Americas%u201D%20Of%20COVID%2C%20Experts%20Warn: A study of cases in Scotland published this week found that the risk of hospital admission with the Delta variant was roughly doubled compared to people infected with the Alpha variant.