Delta's Dawn

- SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, was first detected in India in late 2020.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) named it the Delta variant on 31 May 2021
- In May 2021 observed secondary attack rates to be 51–67% higher than the alpha variant.
- In a June technical briefing the Delta variant was linked to an increased risk in hospitalization.

- The variant is thought to be partly responsible for India's second wave of the pandemic beginning in February 2021
- It later contributed to a third wave in Fiji, the United Kingdom[14][15] and South Africa,[16] and the WHO warned in July 2021 it could have a similar effect elsewhere in Europe and Africa.
- On 7 June 2021, researchers at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore posted a paper suggesting that patients testing positive for Delta are more likely to develop pneumonia and/or require oxygen than patients with wild type or Alpha.
- On 15 June 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention declared Delta a variant of concern.

- The most concerning issue is the logistic growth rate of 0.93/week relative to Alpha. This means that per week, the number of Delta samples/cases is growing by a factor of exp (0.93)=2.5 with respect to the Alpha variant.
This results, under the same infection prevention measures, in a much greater case load over time until a large fraction of people have been infected by it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant

Ohh, O K...

What's the last couple of pages got to do with the headline of this thread?
Please take your theories to a more appropriate thread so interested people can read them there including me. Thanks

Fair enough, we often need that reminder
But i thought the thread did a pretty natural progression/widening, to talk about the reasons for the different restrictions or quarantine regimes for the Chinese, Cambodians and others.

'Fine line i guess, between loosing focus on an interesting topic - and letting a conversation morph and develop out of very little.
It's not that hard to re-set again by simply posting about the OP topic once more.
If it doesn't fly any further, well...

Ooops, that's all off-topic too.

Not really Stern as I was asking what are these Chinese doing here if they are just tourist.
And some explanations were put forth.
Good they are getting a taste of what we have been having to put up and pay up for trying to get home, doesn't make it any better though.