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It's me Doctor Jen here for 6
minutes of science. So, one

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more beautiful place. Sorry
about the wind but what better

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place to talk about Delta
variants. That we're living

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beyond the pandemic and
recognizing that the research

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that I'm gonna point you to
today is from Harvard and they

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said that the surveillance that
we're doing about the different

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variants is patchy at best. So,
one of the things that has been

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said about this Delta variant
is that it's more transmittable

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and it's producing more
negative outcomes than the

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original virus, the novel
virus. So, let's look at the

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data. First of all, the data is
that there's 60% more

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transmitability of the Delta
variant and in the midst of

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that 60% more transmission,
what are we noticing in terms

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of the number of infections and
cases overall? And what are we

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noticing in terms of how we're
reporting whether or not people

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are testing positive for which
particular variant? Is that the

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information that we're hearing
or are we hearing the fearful

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oh no this new variant is
causing 60% more

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transmitability and there's
more concern remember our

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voices need to be louder and
need to be stronger yes there

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are variants yes there are
gonna continue to be variants

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that's how viruses replicate
they they mutate we have to

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recognize who are the people at
the greatest risk and that's

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what we're gonna talk about
today. We know that this delta

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variant produces higher cycle
thresholds and viral loads

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earlier on in the infection.
So, the theory is that the

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people that get exposed to the
Delta variants are going to

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become more sick because of a
higher viral load and it's

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contagious before people are
even aware that they're having

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any sort of dermatology but
what they found is the symptoms

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of the Delta variants are
actually comparatively mild and

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that makes sense because we
don't see even in countries

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that are reporting the Delta
variants, we aren't seeing

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increased numbers of deaths and
we aren't seeing increased

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hospitalizations. Now, this is
what is an interesting point

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that I wanna point you to is
what they found is that there

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are twice as likely to require
hospitalization if the person

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was vaccinated and then get
exposed to the Delta Marion.

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Twice as likely to be
hospitalized if they were

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vaccinated as opposed to if
they had a natural exposure to

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the SARS COVI two virus and
then got exposed to a Delta

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variant. So, some of you have
expressed the concern about the

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Delta variant and what about
the that haven't been

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vaccinated. So, this research
and go read it yourself from

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Harvard says, the people that
have been naturally exposed are

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not the ones at the greatest
risk for the Delta variant.

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It's the people that have been
vaccinated are at greater risk

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for hospitalization. And A and
D, to be fair, we are not

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seeing increasing numbers of
people hospitalized or a deaths

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around the world even with an
increase of Delta variants. So,

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we know that in the UK, they
postponed their restriction

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lifting until the middle of
July because of the Delta

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variant

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have to make sure that our
voices are allowed. Our voices

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are telling people the truth.
That the people at greatest

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risk for the Delta variant are
the people that are vaccinated.

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Not the people that are
unvaccinated, that have already

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had natural exposure. So, I
hope that's encouraging. It's

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encouraging to me. There's a
lot of information that we are

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learning and that's the best
part of science that we're

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continually learning and that
we're continually in community

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and I'm sorry it's loud but I
hope that you have enjoyed

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these beautiful sceneries where
I've been bringing the message

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of hopefulness and I hope that
our voices get stronger. I hope

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that we are as a community
standing strong for let's look

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at science. Let's not interject
fear and let's build up our

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community and connect with
people. So, please please keep

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sharing this around the world
and please keep tuning in to 6

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minutes of Science and be a
part of our experienced TLC

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community as an you and your
messages of hope are the best

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part of our 6 minutes of
science. Bye for now.