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“We are on an exponential curve,” said Mark Williams, dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. “The delta variant is a different animal than the wild [original] variant. It is far more infectious and far more virulent.”Even though treatments are better than they were originally, a larger share of patients
are ending up in intensive care, and the fatality rate for those patients remains high, experts said.“That’s just indicative of the more virulent quality of the delta variant,” Williams said.
“It will make people sick, even people that are young and would not have felt any
consequence from the original wild variant.”Frighteningly, he said, far more children are being hospitalized,
which was very rare until recently. As of mid-July, a dozen children
were in Arkansas Children’s Hospital, he said, and two were on ventilators.
