“Isn’t Delta a milder mutation than previous versions, anyway, with cold-like symptoms?”
It may well be that the milder symptoms we are seeing with Delta in USA, may just be because it is now overwhelmingly younger and healthier people contracting the disease. Over 88% of Americans over 65 have been vaccinated. Delta has a slight advantage in breaking through to infect the (Pfizer and Moderna) vaccinated, but the great bulk of Delta cases are among the unvaccinated.
In India, when few were vaccinated, the Delta case fatality rate was about the same as the original strain.
The genes that changed in the Delta mutation, had to do with transmissibility, but not lethality.
Q: Why do you always assume that the people who report anything CoupFlu related aren’t lying to us?
Again.
The stats are crap. All of them.