What You Need to Know About the Delta Variant
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2021
- Several COVID-19 variants are acting uniquely enough to qualify as a distinct strain. And you might have heard about one on the news: the Delta variant. Today we’re going to talk about what it is, why it’s here, and what you need to know about it.
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"What doesn't kill you mutates and tries again"
-Someone 2021
That should be on a tshirt.
Remember when they said the virus should get weaker over time so that it can coexist with the population it infects? I wonder when that's supposed to start... maybe they meant on evolutionary timescales of hundreds of years?
thats all virus...also humans
@@KWifler, it would make sense from an evolutionary perspective for the virus to weaken to the point that it’s rarely dangerous so humans don’t fight so hard to stop it, but the variants that are being favored right now are those that can spread the easiest.
@@KWifler It isn't a law that viruses get weaker over time. The observations have been that over time as a virus because more transmissable it becomes less deadly. That doesn't mean a strain couldn't buck the trend, but it is a general rule that the more virilent a new strain is, the less deadly it becomes.
There is clearly a lot more research to be done on this.
I know it's good to always check sources and verify material, but I appreciate how transparent and trustworthy Scishow has been about all the covid updates. They're not afraid to admit when information is missing and update accordingly when that info is found. Thanks for educating the people including myself!
This type of transparency is all we as people asked since the very beginning, but yet were led astray just because of unrelated factors.
@@markmedinabattletrix781 Exactly. This pandemic is not a political issue, it's an issue of life or death for many people. There's so much misinfo put out by people who don't want to become any less richer, but what we need right now is actual education and cooperation.
I wish they would do that with all their other videos also, but I agree.
@S Ragsdale nonsense. The man has been dealing with these issues for decades including AIDS and Ebola don't let politicians make you doubt Fauci.
Definitely agree. This is the first time I’ve had any qualms about any of their Covid vids. Why singlenout hand washing? No argument with hand washing. But considering all the variants seem to be spread by respiratory droplets, wouldn’t masks be the best example of a preventative measure?
I really appreciate that you put the date of the video's production at the beginning, so that viewers know how much time has passed since the information provided was up-to-date.
SciShow proves to be above reproach, as usual.
I really appreciate it too. Objective and not afraid to admit mistakes. We’re all human so it happens.
@@gus7598 I appreciate YT noting the date as well. Wish more would read it...
@@heidiknabe9669 Because when the video is published and when the video was filmed may be different. When it is on topics where information can change, a few days may mean a lot.
Because the science changes almost daily now 🤷
This really helps with my anxiety about Covid. Thanks for admitting you don't have all the answers and being straightforward with all your explanations
Getting a summary like this here is SO MUCH less stress-inducing than endlessly doomscrolling through all of the medical researchers I now follow on Twitter.
Yes. Getting honest facts. When he doesn’t have all the information, he tells us.
Twitter is a hotbed of misinformation. If you ask for a source, you most often get a lot of defensive babbling. It’s like a game of telephone.
meanwhile News channels : "THERE'S A NEW VARIENT EVERYONE IS DYING OR WILL DIE"
Doomscrolling
I'm adding that to my vocabulary
@@JairajSinghPatil Oh, that's a
Good one!! Can I use it too?
Scishow’s clear differentiation of what is and isn’t known about this situation is really commendable. The sheer amount of contradictory reports on the subject makes the prospect of trying to gauge it a more terrifying prospect than the virus itself. Thank you for staying objective and clear in your updates.
They don't even have a test for the Delta variant this video is stupid
@@ericb-amuur9897 its called genetic sequencing, that's how they test for it.
@@Samuel-ym8wz so you're saying the sequence everyone they test. But officially only 38 cases have been sequenced......from last year. You've been lied to, they already admitted that they don't have a test for it, look it up
@@ericb-amuur9897 wtf you talking about dude? They do surveillance sequencing, which is where they randomly sample a portion of the population and sequence those. There is this thing called "statistics" that then helps you determine how many people you need to test to be confident that your observations hold up in the entire population.
@@ericb-amuur9897 usually youre told to not become another statistic.
This is how you speak science. You guys so an amazing work with your channel and you should be seen by WAY more people. Thank you, as usual.
Australian here, in Victoria. FML.
Thank you SciShow for offering whatever information is available in a clear and simple understanding. 🤘
SciShow deserves a lot of credit for being willing to admit they don't have all the answers. That means I'm ready to pay attention to what they are confident about.
Edit: Not suggesting that SciShow is perfect, but compared to politicians and health authorities...
Until they are wrong....again
I often wonder if what kind of academic background they have.
I have found people that take high level science classes learn to couch their language better in not giving people the wrong conclusions.
@@Giganfan2k1 the hosts are reading scripts, the only one I know of to be a scientist is hank. They likely have a whole research team
Sci show does their research, and they provide resources for what they find. Still, take caution in the information you take from one source. The best way to stay informed is to check out many sources and form your own opinion from what you've learned.
Edit: typo fix
@@jatpack3 - what have they been "wrong" about?
Scishow, one of the very rare few that's pretty well known and can admit to how they don't have all the details. Respect
Thank you for listing all your sources! So important right now and something that is glaringly missing in a lot of cases.
Clear, concise, and fact based. Thank you so much for this. It makes sense. Great job 👏🏽
I know they must hate making the covid19 videos... but I love them. It's so hard to keep up with every element of covid and it's nice to have them as a rock
Thx guys 😁
They probably just as fed up as we are
Supersaez are u bored at all?what the hell is there to keep up with when it comes to covid.get a life please man
Mike Fibre because to some people the purpose of life is fear and escaping it through keeping up with Covid and the Kardashians.
@@mikefibre5337 Keep that same energy when you get covid kid
That’s why it’s called what you need To know about delta
I don't have enough English words in me to describe how much I appreciate you guys providing useful information to public.
Thank you Scishow and I hope you guys and everyone else stay safe and healthy.
The words you used worked very well.
What's the most appropriate non-English word you can think of?
@@KristiContemplates I'd say "دمت گرم" it's a Farsi expression. Can't really be translated literally.
Gracias por todos.
Wado
Danke
It's OK, you did better than most people that only speak/write English. 🤓👍🍻
I've been waiting for this video for a few days. Thank you.
Thank you so much for covering this
You are everywhere in the RUclips comment section! Some comments of yours are really entertaining! Anyways, I hope you stay safe and healthy
As an Australian, and specifically a Brisbane resident, we managed to get ourselves out of a delta lockdown after 1 week! Vaccination clinics are booked out and we've had record number testings and no big anti vax or mask protests. So you'll see our stats change in the next couple of weeks
Envious, mate. And congrats! Stay healthy 😷💪
I hope so! With the first wave, you guys (meaning "enough Australians to matter") did so well! Good luck, friend. I might consider moving to Australia if you guys keep getting everything under control while we in the States... are full of dangerous, selfish, idiots.
@@IceMetalPunk yes, I do feel for America. Especially the people who are trying so hard to do the right thing. Must be incredibly infuriating. 😔 Good luck to you all as well! 💜
SA did same! Fingers x’d for ACT and VIC. NSW has let the team down this time. Didn’t adapt their strategy for the new MVP.
I'm Canadian and we have anti vaxxer marches every single week. They completely take over downtown and march down the street like an army, carrying flags and yelling into megaphones. I work downtown and they routinely come into our store to yell at us and tell us about stupid conspiracy theories. I'm tired of having to deal with them.
I was going to joke that the next variant will be Epsilon. Turns out there is already a variant for every Greek letter up to Lambda. There are only 13 more letters in the Greek alphabet before we run out.
Omega covid sounds menacing
@@davidcapes1567 omega weapon
Waiting on the Zeta variant.
Well, the English alphabet has 26. And we could employ Cyrillic if necessary. I really hope they don't need either one.
@BC 4U No my dude. Virus variants are really common, almost every strain has them, but you are too lazy to check anything.
I’m an Australian. We thought we had the virus licked, that was until the Delta variant showed up. Just one person with Delta turned that around altogether. The vast majority of people here were a mask as soon as they leave home. We also social distance and use hand sanitizers but it still got through. Lots of regions are now back to total lock down with no end in sight. What a mess.
I mean, the vast majority didn't mask up and got relaxed about distancing and sanitisng. Pretty much everyone other than Melbourne got lazy, and those of us in places like Tassie, SA and WA are still pretty lazy, we're just now lazy and complaining about wearing masks. What our real issue was, was a complete failure to get vaccines rolled out thanks to going all-in on AstraZeneca before the clotting issues were discovered that made the AMA suggest people not get that one under a certain age, and it took until the NSW outbreak for the government to give people who weren't in high risk groups the option to sign off informed consent to take the AZ vaccine at any age in NSW instead of waiting until they get enough Pfizer doses to allow people under 40 to get that one. (The other problem being that doing quarantine in a hotel where people can infect each other is dumb, and trusting people to self-isolate then finding them wandering around in the community is also dumb)
Just two more weeks of lockdown and then you will be back to normal.
@@paulapple6575 until the next variant!
lol, yeah. u had a virus licked. right
@@Hudson316 exactly!
Show was filmed in my Birthday! Aug 10th! THANKS SCISHOW 💜💜💜
You guys are awesome!!!
Good job, SciShow. I appreciate the way you present the facts, but also bring up the unknowns.
What happens after the Omega variant? At this rate we're going to run out of Greek letters sometime soon.
cs we got some dumb anti vaxxinaters
We at delta Variant and I’m already ready to kill politicians (in minecraft)
Honestly, we're just going to need to get boosters each year because of these idiots who just didn't get the vaccine early on.
@@Altmetalpunk How the hell am I supposed to get a vaccine? It‘s literally impossible in Central Europe
Not if we get vaccinated
I'm so glad you are putting out this content! I trust this information far more than other sources, because...science. And facts. ❤
Thank you for all your hard work of helping us stay informed.
I like how they're reminding us how statistics work so we better understand the # of cases being reported among the unvaccinated and the vaccinated.
I like the fact that everybody has forgotten that nearly every single country at the beginning lied about their statistics... who is actually in charge of this? It can easy be manipulated to suit ones needs.
@Suave Karl Marx i like the fact that you couldnt even dispute the claim of faulty data used in countries statistics. Must be your scientific method. Enjoy that ignorance and hate. Shortens your quality of life and lets be honest...im fine with that 💘
@Suave Karl Marx I'm so glad you pointed out how honest these countries have been, especially china, we can learn a lot from them, since there numbers were so low compared to the rest of the world.
@@run4eva Nobody is in charge. Of anything really. Once you truly understand that, then you'll know why everything is stupid.
@@jatpack3 You know what else is ignorant and hateful and shortens your quality of life? Being anti-vax ❤️
It must have been said before but someone is playing a SERIOUS game of Plague Inc.
US at Fort Detrick.
SHTF coming late Autumn;....-21, with Serious Death Rates.
@@buttafan4010 Top of the Class for You! 😂✌💉🌍
Plague Inc needs an update to include "skepticism of medical science" as a tool to increase your virus and win against humanity haha
One where taking certain vitamins and supplements still work.
I love that this shows how nuanced everything is, and how overly simplistic explanations really do not serve us well.
Complex problems require complex solutions!
Democracy doesn't really tolerate nuance.
@@someonejustsomeone1469 Totalitarianism does not tolerate even thinking.
@@larryt4884 you got it wrong.
Totalitarianism is what allows thinking, as long as you don't express your thoughts which might oppose the heirarchy.
Democracy leads to propaganda designed to manipulate your mind to prevent you from thinking.
@@someonejustsomeone1469... but in democracy you can always identify propaganda, expose and ridicule it. In totalitarian state you would be dead.
I love this channel - straightforward information. No drama just facts.
Appreciate the quick recap. Keep being awesome :)
Thank you guys for being an unbiased and reliable source on this when so many other media sources are so skewed and unreliable!!
Reliable?
He says Pfizer two shots protects from Delta.
Israel, 90% vaccinated disagrees. Puts it less than 40% efficacy.
The vaccine isn't a vaccine. Now this dude says "stopping the spread wasn't the goal of this vaccine" ... Then why get it? They preached herd immunity for over a year and now say herd immunity wasn't the goal?
If you think this channel is reliable, you're kidding yourselves.
@@johnbai4715 Do you know how vaccines work? Because based on this comment, and other comments I've seen you make I'm going to guess you really have no idea how they work.
Vaccines don't give you immunity to a disease, they never have, all they've ever done is make things a bit less miserable for you when you do get the disease because your body has a better blueprint to fight said disease than starting with a "Scorched Earth" type attack which often is what your body does. And again, this is from every vaccine ever, not just COVID. Ever have a flu vaccine? So yes Pfizer does protect you from Delta because it won't be as bad if you do get it, what it doesnt do is make immune to it
@@Mike__B so then why would we need more people to take the vaccine? If you’re “protected” from one strain, why exactly does another strain, of the SAME virus, suddenly pose this mass societal threat to us all? And just how many mutations are even possible for a virus to undergo? Infinite? What is the exact biological mechanism that causes viruses to mutate? And why must mutations necessarily be bad? Perhaps a virus could mutate into something LESS deadly?
Why is it ALWAYS about the fear and terror of it all with you people? 😂✌️🇺🇸 I like to try and understand things that I’m confused about.....do you? Lol
@@Macheako Would you like to try to understand in this case? I will be more than happy to answer your questions. I will admit, to answer all the questions would make quite literally a wall of text in the comments, but if you would like I would answer things for you.
That said, it's not about fear and terror, at least from answering questions honestly. It really does seem that there is a fear and terror element though, and yes some of it is by the media to be fair, but there also a rather large growing population of people trying to scare or convince people not to get vaccinated which in itself is using fear, uncertainty or doubt. If you don't want to get vaccinated for whatever reasons that's your decision, but what benefit do you gain by trying to convince others not to get vaccinated? At least those that are pro-vaccine there is some benefit to convincing others (whether you believe it or not).
@@Mike__B
So clearly you have NO CLUE how vaccines work... and you're telling him he doesn't know? Ha! That's rich!
So I guess everyone who had the MMR vaccine just gets the virus anyway? No, that's not how vaccines worked to *ELIMINATE* Smallpox.
Vaccines (if the administered dose works well with your immune system) gives your body a way to *ELIMINATE* the virus in question meaning you won't be able to spread it or contract it and get sick from other who had the same virus.
Smallpox was successfully eliminated because it was a largely stable virus that didn't rapidly mutate so anyone with who was vaccinated could repel symptoms while their body is working to destroy any of the relevant viral particles. This is what vaccines do in laymans terms.
You clearly didn't know that. Now respiratory viruses can (as some people in other threads mentioned maybe also this one I didn't read the whole thing before stumbling on your comment) seek refuge in mucus keeping the virus somewhat isolated from your immune system's defenses which can allow you to incubate and transmit the virus before you've even been infected yourself whether or not you've been vaccinated. Even so when you're body is aware of exposure it will send the requisite defenses to the right location to eliminate a threat if is well equipped to. In the case of unvaccinated people who have no prior exposure their symptoms will likely be worse than in any of the other groups. People with previous exposure and natural immunity will likely be better equipped to handle new infections than those who received this particular batch of Coronavirus vaccines and the reason why is simple. The mRNA vaccines skip a step the immune system doesn't need to work out how to best defend itself instead it is told which antibodies to make directly and if the virus that it comes into contact with later is different... well then it's starting from square one. In the case of COVID-19 vaccines a lot of the time when someone is sick again it's because they contracted one of the new variants... hm I wonder why that is?
Obviously I don't wonder I know why and explained why in detail just above. You just need to understand that this family of viruses that COVID-19 belongs to is not something we can eliminate with vaccines because it changes to rapidly it lives in many animals (going to have to vaccinate your pets and some of the wildlife outside too)... and well there's just no way that we can make a vaccine fast enough to cut off the existence of future strains.
COVID-19 is here to stay. Accept that fact and move on.
I appreciate how you let us know when you recorded this
I dont normally subscribe to channels but I appreciate how SciShow delivers information. Remains neutral and passes along information as they get it, without filters.
In December '20, I caught the alpha Covid19. In January and February I got vaccinated. I'm one of those who caught the delta variant, and I got VERY sick. I think if I hadn't been vaccinated, I'd be sitting in the morgue right now. I have quarantined myself, and I figure I have about 9 more days of quarentine left. It's been brutal.
So sorry you had to go through the ordeal, but glad that you give testament to others about how nasty and scary your experience was. Maybe someone will change the way they think about the virus b/c of you.
Are you generally healthy overall
You poor thing. Hugs.
Glad you're feeling better! Hang tight, you'll be back to yourself in no time, thanks to antibodies and T-cells :)
@@IceMetalPunk I had covid March 2020 and my lungs still aren't better. Your anti-bodies and T-cells can't fix that.
Thank you for the clear update, so much conflicting stuff out there.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is one of the only places I can get information, real information on the science without even a ghost of any political slant or agendas. Bravo!
Hank, thank you so much for bringing accuracy and precision in your vaccine explanations.
Godzilla
He is lying.
@@spiritinthesky572 prove it.
I've been helped tremendously. Thank you Hank.
I just learned more in 7ish minutes than I've learned all week via other news outlets. Now I've got a good idea of why I hang around this channel. 😊
Might I suggest @JimmyRees on RUclips?
Excellent Discourse on this important matter. Thank you for your time in sharing. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Keep up the good work sci show
So clear and informative! Thank you!
I always come to y'all for updates on covid and it helps me know exactly what's going on. I really appreciate y'all, thank you
Love your straightforward honest science!
Thanks for trying to keep us all informed and safe.
Thank-you for breaking this down for us all
I live in New Zealand, and we recently had a traveller from Australia come to our capital city of Wellington on vacation. He was infected with the Delta variant and was it in the community for a good 4 days including visiting several Cafes, restaurants and tourist attractions. He'd had one Astra-zenica jab and amazingly he didn't transmit it to anyone! We got off lightly. But it does say a lot about viral load even after one jab!
Not really... They have measured high viral load in most people with both vaccinations who then got delta.
How were they able to distinguish it from the original variant?
@@nestorv7627 Tests
How did he get in with an infection? Did he catch it between getting tested and getting on the plane?
@@CustardCream22 there are currently no tests that can distinguish between these 2 traces
Been a subscriber and a huge fan of this channel for several years now thank you for another great and informative video. Thank you and have a blessed day everyone
Excellent work.Thank you so much.
Always super clear. Great video.
Thanks for the info.
This is never going to end.
Is that a threat
Why would they ever let it end? They would lose the trillion $ covid industry they created last year.
@@football42241 Intelligent people are thankful that very intelligent people made vaccines. Heroes. Patriots. Lifesavers. They deserve a statue to celebrate the heritage. 🇺🇸
@@rickdworsky6457 hope you realise many idiots have discovered and invented great things... things you use today. 🏴☠️
Not with 'murka's band of stupid providing millions of mutation factories and the world's untreated poor doing the same, unfortunately.
Thanks so much SciShow. You’ve been unbiased, honest, and informative right from the start of this pandemic. You do your research, site your findings, and present them in an easy to understand manner for us laymen. You admit you don’t have all the info, and even when you’re wrong, you’ll always correct it in the comments or the video or something! Thanks!
Kudos for having the wisdom to put the publication date up front FIRST!!!!
I'm subscribing through patreon, the world needs more of this.
Delta Plus is another one to look out for. At this rate COVID-19 variants are going to sounds like EA DLC.
or Paradox :D
Fifa 28 variant
2023 Covid: my grandma got the Gemini Plus Diamond 6 variant :(
Well more like covid is EA free game but the game is unplayable without the DLCs and the DLCs are the vaccines. The rich countries get them and the poor countries have to wait until they go on sale
I feel bad for laughing out loud at this comment, but I don't regret it.
Thanks for the info. Keep up the good work, you are helping millions all over the world by getting more good info out there.
Thank you SciShow for keeping us in the know with factual information!
Speaking as an Australian, I feel like Australia's problems with the delta variant are due to incessant media and political failings as much as anything else
100% Especially when you have ego heads like Gladys calling the shots preaching she's "for the businesses" crap when in reality had she shut things down sooner NSW wouldn't be in such a dire situation economically and health wise :/
Labour or liberal doesn't matter who is in charge this still would of gotten out og control because we are too laid back, misinformation and some people not believing it and spreading it
I posted this in these comments but: the description of Australia having 2,000 cases a week, with only a hundred or so a week until June IS COMPLETELY MISLEADING AND FALSE FOR THE LATTER.
Firstly, until June, we have had 10s of cases a week, not a hundred, and they were all almost exclusively in hotel quarantine. That's right, you cannot enter Australia unless you are an Australian resident or citizen and even then, only with a very valid reason from a very small list of exemptions. And then you have to spend two weeks in quarantine on arrival, at your own expense, with regular testing and a negative test on day 11-13 (varies from state to state). Until June, we only had rare cases of community transmission and they were all exclusively leaks from hotel quarantine (staff infected, or travellers infected from COVID positive travellers in other rooms, the latter because hotels generally have terrible ventilation, increasing the risk of infection. We need dedicated quarantine facilities [intense glare at the Federal government]). Whenever these leaks occurred, in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane/Gold Coast, Darwin or Melbourne, these cities went into snap 3-5 hard lockdowns in response to small numbers of cases, or even single cases. This broke any chains of transmission and allowed contact tracers to exhaustively trace any and all contacts. The contact tracing here does both up- and downstream tracing, as well as 3-4 rings (primary/close contacts, their primary/close contacts, casual/secondary contacts, and sometimes casual/secondary contacts of the primary/close contacts). In my city (Perth) we had an outbreak that ended up being a cluster of six infections. We put around 3,000 contacts into home isolation for two weeks. Yes, 3,000 contacts for 6 infections. This model of snap lockdowns and contact tracing is the model that is used in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania.
Secondly, the large outbreak that started in June was mostly restricted to the Greater Sydney area. It was started by a limousine driver who was transporting international flight crews; the driver wasn't vaccinated or wearing a mask and was not required to under NSW regulations. Much to the chagrin of literally every other state and territory, the New South Wales state government was a firm opponent of using snap lockdowns, or lockdowns at all. Those 300-400 cases a day are mostly limited to the Greater Sydney area. The NSW government unfortunately reacted far too slowly and in a limited way, resulting in a spreading of the Delta variant. The lockdown restrictions in Sydney have only just changed to be as strict as those used in every other state and territory. That large outbreak in Sydney has seeded outbreaks in Melbourne (x2), Brisbane (x2), Adelaide (x1), Darwin (x1), the ACT (x1) and Perth (x1). It has now also started seeding outbreaks in rural NSW. In South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory (until yesterday when they went into a snap lockdown due to seeding from NSW), Queensland and Western Australia, there is currently no community transmission and we live with very few restrictions. Long story short: the outbreak in Sydney was caused by a state government who refused to follow the proven techniques used by other states here.
@@ktgs6723 to be fair contact tracers were given a sidestep by a couple of women who were from South West Sydney prior to the outbreak becoming worse. The women lied about entering a hair salon in the eastern suburbs of Sydney when it was in lockdown following the limo driver outbreak and that's what caused the government to make the decisions that they did and not snap lockdown all of Sydney. I'm sure the government has learnt their lesson from that but for those who know, trying to get south west Sydney residents to follow the lockdown rules to the letter of the law is like herding cats. That's why their active case rates remain high and why it has spread further. Newcastle/Hunter outbreak was started by a couple of girls who breached lockdown and ignored two separate police directions to return to Sydney and still then went and partied in two pubs in Newcastle. I don't believe it's the government's fault.
@@mattbates7099
Do you seriously think the Berejiklian government made the decision not to lockdown at the time of the outbreak occurring? Rubbish. Utter rubbish. They had made up their minds months ago that they wouldn't lockdown.
Gladys Berejiklian (25/05/2021): “I fear for Victoria and I worry about what their government may do. I hope we have demonstrated to other states it is possible to manage an outbreak and not shut down a city.”
Gladys Berejiklian (29/05/2021): "We've demonstrated in NSW that there's an alternate way to heavy-handed lockdowns... We made sure that we had the systems in place to be able to weather whatever came our way so that we would never go into lockdown again".
Delta Outbreaks
Victoria: 3
Qld: 2
NT: 2
SA: 1
WA: 1
ACT: 1
NSW:1
Every other state but NSW has used snap lockdowns. WA, SA, NT (x2), Victoria (x2) and Qld (x2) have all eliminated outbreaks using them (ACT and Victoria still dealing with their current outbreaks).
Snap lockdowns for an entire city work because it breaks any chains of transmission, including ones that are unknown to contact tracers, precisely to counter situations as you described with the hairdresser. You call a snap lockdown (and an actual lockdown, not the mockdown Sydney had until last week) on the 19th June when it became clear the limo driver had infected others, those women don't get infected and don't spread it in the salon.
Did you read my point about the type of contact tracing done in every other state? WA identified 2800 close contacts. This May, Victoria had over 100 primary contacts for every case. On the 12th July, with the case numbers in NSW, NSW would have had over 50,000 using the WA/Vic/SA method. But NSW had only declared 15,000. Yesterday, the ACT had 20 odd cases and 21,000 people in isolation. Victoria learned the hard way last year the need for up- and downstream, 3-4 ringed contact tracing. Every other state, except NSW, learned from them. Only hubris, belief of their own spin that they were somehow exceptional, and an irrational hate of Dan Andrews led to the NSW government not adopting those contact tracing methods.
It is absolutely and utterly is the NSW government's fault that it got to the point it has. The virus should never have reached the southwest of Sydney. Literally every other major city in Australia (apart from Hobart) has managed to introduce tough snap lockdowns and it is nothing but Sydney/NSW exceptionalism to think that it is somehow wouldn't be the same for Sydney.
As an Australian resident, the reason we didn’t have a lot of cases throughout the pandemic until now, was simply due to luck. Each of the states have wildly different lockdown strategies, with Victoria being the most strict, and most successful. New South Wales on the other hand has a Premier who prides herself on being the leader of the state who “will never lockdown” and now with the Delta variant, it’s coming back to bite her in the arse. More than 6 weeks into this current outbreak and she STILL hasn’t locked down the state, and cases continue to climb. I live in NSW, and we’re all waiting for the public health order that seems like it’ll never come, because our state premier is an idiot
I dont understand why our vaccine roll out was so delayed.
@@Goyote ...because it was timed for political not public health reasons.
Covid is something to live with you can't lockdown everytime there is a case, vaccinate and move on with you life.
It's a virus and won't go away,just like the flu. Get used to it.
Its finally come, according to the radio here in NZ anyway. But the lockdown still sounds pretty soft, if people are allowed to meet a person outside their household for exercise, and work like construction sights and shops is still going ahead. Honestly, it should be like it was here during lockdown, supermarkets, pharmacies, doctors offices, and hospitals could open, and essential parts of the supplie chain for those shops, and shut down absolutely everything else. Oh, and jounralism, like the radio. And if any parts of those essentials could work from home, they had to.
No takeaways, no homewares, absolutely no school, no construction except the most urgent repairs, like say, a burst watermain.
It is hard to get details, but even now the state is finally in lockdown, it doesn't seem that strict. And it has to be, especially with delta
@@stevesmith3659 there’s an election due soon. Wait for the vaccine floodgates to open and everything to heroically open up again a week before the poll is due to take place.
thank you for making this! i trust this channel to be clear and simple to understand and also as nuanced as needed to maintain accuracy. thank you everyone for all the hard work.
but you cant trust the who were they got the info from.
Thanks for this, Hank. :) Watching from Melbourne Australia where we just concluded our overnight curfew. We have one bad state here, which we have isolated as much as possible
This has helped me understand what is happening so far with this variant. Thank you :)
Thanks for the facts and analysis! Always clear and helpful
Being in Australia I can tell you where it hit is NSW and in NSW we have the worst management of covid of almost anywhere in the developed world. The management of the virus that was congratulated was Melbourne and Queensland.
Australia is now a covid fundamentalist country
I doubt that. You seen the uk??! They make Australian government look organised
@@Robbnlinzi UK was terribly I agree, but we are more or less back to normal. At no point did we have the army on the street, or drones.
@@sdrawkcabUK Ah, yes, "COVID fundamentalism". That's like when I get the flu, so I stay home from work, which makes me an influenza fundamentalist, right?
@@sdrawkcabUK You've got quite a few dead people in the ground now though, so congrats?
Thank you for the information
Because of the Volcano i've been watching (on RUclips) the "Reykjavik Grapevine" with Valur. They say that even though over 90% of Icelanders have been vaccinated an Icelander recently brought the delta variant back from Scotland and succeded in infecting over 400 people with it. Of course most of these newly infected people were already vaccinated. However only a handful of hospitalisations and as yet no deaths.
That's what I remember off the top of my head from their last report a few days ago.
They started by saying that the delta variant was more contagious but much weaker. Not it's both more contagious and more severe?? The data changes fast, and authoritative claims go and go even faster "nah, this time were sure! just kidding, do the opposite now"
@@TheOneAndOnlySame so? that is how science works. when more information comes, one adapts. its not about being right, first, and forever.
@@lisasommerlad1337 Yeah but that doesn't make it any less frustrating to deal with. If you're a politician (someone responsible for the future and safety of your people and country) your decisions and decrees hinge on the information you have; if the information you have is constantly changing, it makes it difficult to make the right decision at the right time. In the end, the masses will think the authorities and professionals are incompetent because they can't decide on anything. People like facts and stability.
@@lisasommerlad1337 It's about credibility when you ascertain something to the wider public, and then go the other direction 2 months later. And when this whole crisis has been this circus, it is not surprising that many people will stop believing
@@TheOneAndOnlySame viruses change, thus information changes as situations change. to expect stability and consistency in this situation is unrealistic. i dont understand why people do not grasp this. its like complaining that we have to go north to escape a fire, after being told to go south, while ignoring that the wind has changed direction... we're human! so lets just bloody adapt!! all our ancestors had to!! none of us would be here without adaptation!
Thank you for the update! As with any virus, such as the flu, there will always be variants. At least you're giving us information to help the population viewing your content to better understand what is going on.
When you spend all your DNA points on transmission
Oh gosh 😆
Ya buddy
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Thank you for this.
Very scarey in nz thank you for giving helpful information.Keep Safe
Well…it may be sucky news…but at least its my favorite host giving it.
Haha, hopefully you'll never be in that position but would you prefer your doctor to be hot if they had to give you bad news at the hospital? ^^
In the words of Churchill which seems appropriate to our situation with Covid:
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
True story
We are just about at the point half way through an asteroid impact movie when the president makes the announce to the nation and the world that the attempt to divert or destroy the asteroid has failed ... except that instead of being an hour and a half movie ... we're a year and a half into all this ... the storm that Trump referred to in his mysterious "This could be the calm before the STORM!" warning during an October 2017 press conference with all the Joint Chiefs of Staff present ... as well as General Talley ... base commander at Fort Detrick's L4 Lab bio-weapons lab where the sars-cov-2 franken virus was originally spliced together prior to the 2017 ban on gain of function research ... Fauci's specialty.
Feels good to get a reliable information source
Thank you for this informative video on the delta variant. You provided a fantastic service.
At this rate we'll have the US College fraternity variant in a few months - "I'm sorry, it's the Phi Beta Kappa variant - symptoms include beer pong and toga parties"
It will originate at Blizzard's HQ
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Enough to make you want to grab your plaid, staff, and the good knife
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don't forget the all electric COVID22 model now with RGB lighting and cup holders!
I really appreciate the updates and info you guys give. I really can't stand basically all news, there's so much trash there. But you keep on top of it and keep it factual, and adjust and clarify as we go along, and I really appreciate it.
Thank you guys for reporting all of this in a proper scientific manner.
You know it's serious when Hank has to do the presentation. Waddup Hank!!!
This is never going to end...
No, it will never end. This is just what life will be like. Covid will be around forever, forever mutuating past our vaccines.
@@donnybobo8553 That's what the flu does too
@@donnybobo8553 These mutations came about before vaccines were widespread. Delta first originated in India in October 2020. If worldwide vaccination were more widespread, we wouldn’t have this level of mutation, and we’d have more time to respond to ones that eventually developed.
You are correct, but we will learn. Covid's genome will co-evolve with human political systems, human biotech, and it will be around long enough to affect gene frequencies in human populations. We will evolve along with it.
But we can make a good world if just enough of us would get vaccinated NOW, while we still have an edge. In the longer run the disease will change political systems because in ten years high vax groups will have a political edge against low vax groups. DeSantis in Florida and to a lesser extent Abbott in Texas seem to be wanting to kill off people in the urban areas that don't vote for them, but the urban areas are fighting back with higher vax rates and mask compliance.
antiantiderivative ya bro it’s bad it’s already too late
Thank you for this video. Traditional news is so sensational, and it's difficult to read all the papers. I'm seriously glad this channel exists
New Zealand just went back to full lockdown due to our first likely Delta case, unconnected to the border. It was a nice break while it lasted. So lucky to live here, even if it is crazy expensive. Definitely wouldn't wanna be anywhere else in the world right now.
So lucky to live in a place that locks everyone in the country down when one person is sick?
@@IsaacMillerRocks Yep. Last year in South Africa, one man changed everything👀
@@IsaacMillerRocks We're now 4.5 weeks into a lockdown. The lockdown for Auckland continues, however, the rest of NZ is pretty much well free to do as they please. we're also only just hitting 1,000 infected and one death. Total deaths since last year, due to Covid, are less than 12 I believe.
No one close to me was infected with covid before this particular variant surfaced but as soon as it spread in my country, I've lost 1 family member and 2 other family members were infected. Scary times...
sorry for your loss, if you don't mind me asking, how old was the lost family member?
Death is a guarantee. Tomorrow is not. Live life while you can.
@@jaypuck6912 death is not guaranted. Its more like were living on borrowed time, and tomorrow is not promised. So live your life to the fullest each day while you can
@@valcryostasis3626 You... you think death is not guaranteed?
I know someone who had a breakthrough infection, but their symptoms were mild and they tested negative within a week. I was exposed to them, but I’m double vaccinated and I didn’t contract it at all. It’s anecdotal, but worth sharing that it’s still super important to get vaccinated, even though breakthrough infections can occur.
Breakthrough cases of the illness COVID-19 can occur (found in about 0.5% of large groups tested). Breakthrough infections are not a thing. SARS-CoV-2 infections in vaccinated people is relatively normal after their antibody surge ends. Think of it as a free booster shot.
I'll trust my body's natural immune system over big pharma and lying politicians thanks
breakthrough infections can occur but you're looking at 1% chance of it happening. it's something that can happen, but it's exceedingly rare. it SEEMS less rare, because we're dealing with such big numbers, but that doesn't make it less rare
think of it like this: if every person who had been infected in america had actually been vaccinated (36 million confirmed cases), then 1% of that would be 360,000 breakthrough cases.
360,000 may sound like a lot, but compared to 36 million, it's tiny.
scientists acknowledge the reality that 1% means something CAN happen, but disingenuous people act like 1% is the same as 100%. it's not
and keep in mind, the vaccine is free -- hospital stays are not
So glad that you guys talked about vaccine equity.
Thank you 🙏🏽
Thanks, it pretty confusing with everything going around so at least I know we’re not done yet, even if I wish we were
I’ve had the delta covid last month, and I ended up with severe astma :( still coughing out my lungs, while taking 3 different types of medicines every day.
Edit: the upside = i quit smoking! :)
I'm sorry. Hugs.
What tests were you given that could possibly distinguish covid from covid-delta with any certainty? You weren't.
Maybe your smoking may have made you more susceptible to covid? 🤔 Congrats tho.
@@AMpufnstuf I hear this argument alot. Don't know about other countries, but here in Denmark they analyze all positive tests to find out which strain caused the infection.
@@lexkek5625 That certainly didn't help, but that's not to say they wouldn't have caught it if they didn't smoke.
Thank you so much for always keeping us updated on the pandemic. As a person who has, not only a compromised immune system, but also cancer, I trust this channel to give the most up-to-date information. Really, something needs to be done about requiring vaccination (unless there's a medical reason why not)! I still see SO many people who don't wear even a mask anymore!
@@thebear4281 So real, scientific information just sounds like propaganda to you? I think I know what the real problem is.
Thank you.
Oh nice, I hadn't heard of the Lambda variant before the end of this video, but it sounds fun (sarcasm). I will wait for more information concerning it :) Thank you for the information on the Delta variant and thank you for emphasizing that vaccines still help & also that breakthrough cases may happen for any vaccine.
Thank you for the update! It would be nice if there was no COVID news at all but I guess this is just where we are.
When did the US ever successfully manage earlier strains? We relaxed measures without ever accomplishing anything...
Just wait until the economic relief expires and we've got a new influx of homeless, desperate people who feel society has failed them.
That's a recipe for angry mobs burning cities to the ground. It's going to get _ugly_ across America.
I was also coming to comment like whaaat???
Well informative
scishow is an essential service
"Successfully managed" and the US shouldn't be in the same sentence.
Hank has allowed his money to change him. I remember how he conducted an absolutely fawning interview of one of big pharma's executives. US is actually a disgrace with regard to how covid was handled, and I doubt that will change anytime soon. CDC stopped tracking breakthrough infections that don't end in hospitalization or death. I guess they decided we can't handle real information. Or maybe they can't?
Tell me about it! I'm just glad I live in a state that doesn't make it illegal to institute mask mandates. Denial of science in this country has made the bar so low for things that I'm grateful for in my state.
To anyone reading this comment, I hope you stay safe and well
Ill try, but with a 99.999% chance of surviving covid, things will be risky out there!
You and yours too!
Im content at the moment
@@subverted6555 sped moment
i would like to see another video on the topic.
When I got the Moderna vaccine it was literally my last choice for vaccine I wanted. It was all that was available at the time. Now I couldn't be happier with it in retrospect.
I got my second moderna shot in April and my arm is still sore
Hopefully covaxin will be available in U.S. soon.
@@LittleDragon6 Damn! My arm was sore for a full week with the second shot, it felt like it just trailed off. It was damn painful, I can't imagine still feeling that pain months later. Sorry to hear that dude.
@@than217 Do they inject in the same shoulder for both shots?
@@mikev4621 generally yes though you could probably ask for the other one
I'm in the UK literally just getting over the delta variety. I rate it 0 out 5 stars, would not recommend.
Please explain?
@@necenece1742 means that it was extremely painful and unpleasant to experience most likely.
Good luck. I wish you and yours well.
I had the Delta variant also. It lasted two days with headache, runny nose, and fever. It was strange being fine one day, sick the next two days, then completely fine the third day as if I almost never had it. Not too bad for someone who isn't vaccinated.
@@williamle-ed2nk definitely wasn't covid 😂
Damn I thought we were gonna see some normalcy this year. Covid said “made you look” smh
we can be normal whenever we want to be, sadly far too many politicians want this to continue for as long as possible.
Your government said "made you look", not Covid.
2025 or so everything will boil down completely
@@metalheadblues yes, I think the vaccines should give us enough time to find a way to eradicate covid, maybe using CRISPR. I think as long as we are careful covid can end before 2025
Everything is going exactly as planned.
Current watching as a breakthrough case. Both my wife and I have been vaccinated and contracted the illness. There seems to be several cases such as ours in our area.
We did everything right: vaccines, social distancing, etc. We still got infected. I am grateful we were vaccinated. This is worse than the flu. Could not imagine how bad it would have been if we were not vaccinated.
I think it's important to be specific that "breakthrough cases" also include people who are completely asymptomatic. So that's even less to worry about when you are vaccinated.
The same logic applies to non-vax. The number of cases is several times larger than those reported due to people who had no or little symptoms. This means the mortality rate is several times lower than reported. What are we afraid of again?
@@zeroneutral The man. You're afraid of the man. Don't forget.