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Do you have a source on that? My understanding is it was more transmissible, and suspected to be more severe but there was no hard data.

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CDC's FAQ on the delta variant mentions it "might cause more severe illness than previous variants in unvaccinated people."

Also quoted from CDC's FAQ:

> "In two different studies from Canada and Scotland, patients infected with the Delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized than patients infected with Alpha or the original virus that causes COVID-19."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...

This summary from august points to a couple studies that support the general 2x hospitalization rate in unvaccinated delta patients.

Honestly I wasn’t aware that there was this much uncertainty at the time, I remember hearing that delta was affecting young people in India more strongly way back in early 2021

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/08/421171/how-dangerous-delta...

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