Hawaii Numbers. 95% 65+ are vaccinated.. results slowly coming in

Well duh, they haven’t gotten the booster yet. This is useless without the booster. Don’t you trust the science!?!

Delta is less deadly because a lot of people died from the original COVID* leaving less people available to die from Delta. It's impossible to correct the data for this fact, but having the two peaks in close timeline to each other will muddy the facts.

edit for clarity: *people who are susceptible to die from COVID (>80 yrs old, co-morbidity, etc.)

Gabriel Iglasias joked that he used to constantly get mistaken for Hawaiian because of his attire.

He figured out why once he went to the islands and saw that “they look like swollen Mexicans.”

Isn’t being vaccinated literally a requirement to go to Hawaii these days?

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Tell me something....
Do viruses usually mutate into more infectious and more deadly variants
or
more infectious and less deadly varian

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mutations happen at random and are equally likely to be positive or negative depending on the scenario of the environment. potential aspects of mutations would have trade offs in environmental protections, replication, infectivity, and lethality. generally viruses cant persist if they are too fatal, too fast. yet still viruses can be fatal and persist due to long incubations, HIV -> aids, hepatitis etc.

although which is more likely to persist and succeed establishing a new strain is a different question and is dependent on factors in the environment, not the mutation itself per se. if something can persist incredibly well and is 100% lethal only after a long lag time the lethality is less of a negative for the virus. since viruses have different attributes for a virus is not a simple one or the other, you gotta factor in variables on both sides of the equation.