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Incomplete sentence?

The sentence "These fatality rates are lower than the average fatality rate of 1.9%, presumably due to the now relative high percentage of the more vulnerable in England." seems incomplete. Is something like "... that have been vaccinated." missing at the end?

study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.08.21261768v1.article-metrics

When it says "On August 10, a study showed that the full vaccination coverage rate is correlated inversely to the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant mutation frequency in 16 countries (R-squared=0.878). Data strongly indicates that full vaccination against COVID-19 is critical to suppress emergent mutations.[68]"

This study is a PREPRINT and the statistic analysis isn't rigorous because it violates some assumptions and it has some issues not addressed by the researcher.

Covid Delta Variants: New Cases Rising and being ignored by poliitcs

New Delta Cases are on the rise as Politics within Europe are ignoring it. It has shown that the mutated variant has spread up to 85% within the last 2-3 months. Politics within central Europe seem to ignore such data and are reopening Bars, Restaurants and normal life continues, but at what cost?

The Delta Variant shows that hospitalization rate increases by 63% for not Vaccinated people and therefore is considered as extremely dangerous. People who have only received one vaccine shot are likely to decease by 23% and has been proven to be irrelevant for politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hallomynameistom (talk • contribs) 08:23, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sentence fragment in virulence section

The end of the virulence section has a period where there shouldn't be one. It would appear someone accidentally cut out a part of a sentence/merged two sentences together, maybe someone whose first language isn't English. Hope someone can fix this.--Phil of rel (talk) 03:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What order are the countries in, in the "Statistics" section?

What order are the countries in, in the "Statistics" section? Are they supposed to be in order of the number of cases?? Or is there some secondary explanation for why they don't fully seem to be? Paintspot Infez (talk) 16:23, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delta-specific covid vaccine trial results

I googled:

delta-specific covid vaccine trial

November 1, 2021:

Moderna is investigating the usefulness of Delta-specific booster, hoping to post trial results in early 2022.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-booster-unlikely-data-experts-suggest-unnecessary-2021-10?r=US&IR=T

September 29, 2021:

Pfizer/BioNTech is testing out a reformulated vaccine candidate specifically targeting delta. Clinical trial results are anticipated in the fourth quarter of the year.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/09/29/delta-booster

No results posted yet:

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases

--ee1518 (talk) 22:50, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]