Study Links Delta With More Hospitalisations

London (AP) A new British study suggests people who get COVID-19 from the extra-contagious delta variant are about twice as likely to be hospitalised than those who caught an earlier version of the coronavirus. The delta variant spreads much more easily than the alpha variant that previously was widespread in much of the world. But whether it also causes more severe disease is unclear, something hard to tease out – in part because delta took off just as many countries relaxed their pandemic restrictions even as large swaths of the population remained unvaccinated..