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No variant has really found the combination of transmissibility and lethality, but delta is “the most able and fastest and fittest of those viruses,” said Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of theHe also said that the Delta variant will pick off the more vulnerable more efficiently than previous variants. “If there are vulnerable people left without vaccination, they remain even at further risk,” he said.

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