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Figs 4 and 5 show the growth of the delta variant on a linear and log scale. The growth is seen to be roughly exponential with time.
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Fig 6 Figs 6a shows the US confirmed cases and deaths against the % of delta variant of the virus. There is a noticeable uptick in cases somewhere between 40% and 65% delta variant. If one takes the first US reported Delta Variant (from https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/ - the GSAID initiative is an online database where scientists share genetic analyses of viral samples) of 0.1% on 4/11/21 to the 60.19% for N America reported for 7/5/21 by https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/ then it took 85 days to go from 0.1% of cases to over 61% cases and 16 more days to get to 83% of cases being the delta variant.
Fig 6b shows the cases and deaths vs the average date (The GSAID data gives a range of dates so we take the mid dats)
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Impact of vaccinations in US
Looking at Fig 7 one can see the top 20 states by daily confirmed cases on 7/21/2021. The shift to weekly instead of daily reporting in Florida (FL) (also Nebraska (NE), Iowa (IA) and South Dakota (SD) have done this) results in delayed reporting of surges (e.g. Florida updated its cases an increase in daily cases per Mpop from 320/day to 515/day on 7/23/2021 i.e. a 60% surge in reported cases) and a step function like curve. Figure 8 shows a scatter plot of COVID-19 confirmed cases vs the fraction of the population fully vaccinated on 7/22/2021, the bubbles are colored by the presidential candidate who won the state and the size of the bubble is proportional to the population, the two letter acronym for many states is included, the formula is the formula for the Pearson trendline (shown in blue dots) and the correlation R2.
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Fig 9 plots the US daily confirmed cases and deaths against the % population vaccinated. Fig 10 plots the daily confirmed cases and deaths versus the date. It is seen that as the % of the vaccinated population increases the daily cases and deaths decrease, however as one gets to July the confirmed cases start to increase. Looking at Fig this is when the Delta variant % start to exceed 60%.
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daily The table below shows for each state in Fig 7 for whom it voted for president in the 2020 election together with the % fully vaccinated and daily confirmed cases for 7/21/2021.
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