Not all Covid waves look the same. Here’s a snapshot of the Delta surge

Not all Covid waves look the same: a snapshot of the Delta surge - STAT National data show that unvaccinated adults were hospitalized for Covid at a rate 12 times higher than the fully vaccinated. Eric Boodman STAT

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not all spikes are created equal. The Delta-caused wave that now seems to be sloping downward has different demographics than previous waves, and provides a snapshot of the current state of the pandemic in the United States. While racial and ethnic disparities in Covid cases and deaths persist, some appear to have narrowed to a certain extent. Meanwhile, other divides in who’s getting seriously ill — rooted in geography, in vaccination status — seem to have grown, and epidemiologists don’t think those two trends are unrelated.  ...