Signs you have the Delta variant rather than original Covid are revealed by health official
THE Delta variant has already become the dominant strain of Covid-19 in the US, but many people still don't know that the signs of Delta differ from the well known symptoms of the original strain.
One expert told WWL that mild Delta symptoms could be easily confused with seasonal allergies.
It is also more transmissible than the original, as well as the common cold and influenza, .
has skyrocketed within the past month, with average daily cases at 107,143, up from around just 11,000 in June, AP reports.
The seven-day average for daily new deaths also rose over the past two weeks from about 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 a day as of Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Health officials are urging Americans to get vaccinated, as the variant sweeps through largely unvaccinated populations.
“Our models show that if we don’t (vaccinate people), we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day. [This is] similar to our surge in early January,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky warned CNN this week.