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The Virus that Conquered the World with Prof Peter Doherty [S2 Ep.29]

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What's the Delta Variant of the Wohan Virus?

The delta variant that we're dealing with now is just a virus that multiplies a lot better than the viruses we first encountered. So what it also does is like flue, it'll go further down into the lung, and then you get pneumonia. We don't have any immunity to it in the population because we haven't seen it before. The people that are sick just aren't getting enough oxygen. And they, when we breathe them out, will infect other cells and other people. It's all due the virus gets into the cell, multiplies in the cell, gets out. All it wants to do is maintain in nature by multiplying in cells and infecting other cells in us

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