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Medical Minute: How dangerous is the Delta variant?

“It’s probably already here and present in our community or it will be here soon,” Dr. Dale Patterson, Memorial Hospital Vice President of Medical Affairs, says of the Delta variant of COVID-19. The CDC reports that the variant now accounts for about one in four Coronavirus cases in the U.S.

How dangerous is it? What is our best defense against it? Dr. Patterson explains in our latest Beacon Medical Minute.

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