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		amiga on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Delta variant viral load 1k times higher than orig... Can we extrapolate that to 1000x more infectious than the original strain?

wahern on July 30, 2021 [–]

Absolutely not. These aren't the types of associations and data points that lend themselves to quantified extrapolations.

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