Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/0uw1p_PfNK8   A fully vaccinated person developing Delta CoVid is 93% less likely than someone unvaccinated to require any oxygen supplementation, has a viral load that fades faster, and develops a significantly larger burst of anti-CoVid antibodies.  Singapore researchers report these findings from their study of 218 individuals with a B.1.617. or Delta CoVid infection.   The 71 vaccinated persons who developed Delta CoVid were 3 times less likely to be symptomatic, 2.5 times less likely to develop frank pneumonia, 7 times less likely to require supplemental oxygen., and 4 times less likely to require CoVid-specific ancillary therapy including antibody cocktails and cytokine suppression therapy.  Only the unvaccinated were admitted to the ICU, required intubation, or died.   Delta Covid is nasty but tame-able in the vaccinated.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v1.full.pdf   #CoVid #delta #vaccination