Delta variant: is it serious?

Tuan Nguyen
4 min readJul 17, 2021

You bet. Health authorities and experts keep reminding us that delta variant represents the ‘greatest threat’ to the nation’s effort of eliminating Covid-19. Some experts even warned us that the Delta variant is deadlier than the original Alpha variant. I have done a little research and found that some of the experts’ assertions seem unfounded.

We all know that the Delta variant was first identify in Maharashtra (India) in October 2020. Since then, the variant has been found in more than 77 countries or territories in the world [1]. In the United States alone, Dr. Anthony Fauci…

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Tuan Nguyen

osteoporosis | epidemiology | genetics | biostatistics | data enthusiast