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A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say
科学家称,一种比Delta和Lambda更糟糕的末日新冠病毒变体可能即将到来
Scientists keep underestimating the coronavirus. In the beginning of the pandemic, they said mutated versions of the virus wouldn't be much of a problem—until the more-infectious Alpha caused a spike in cases last fall. Then Beta made young people sicker and Gamma reinfected those who'd already recovered from COVID-19. Still, by March, as the winter surge in the U.S. receded, some epidemiologists were cautiously optimistic that the rapid vaccine rollout would soon tame the variants and cause the pandemic to wind down.
科学家们一直在低估冠状病毒
Delta has now shattered that optimism. This variant, first identified in India in December, spreads faster than any previous strain of SARS-CoV-2, as the COVID-19 virus is officially named. It is driving up infection rates in every state of the U.S., prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to once again recommend universal mask-wearing.
如今,德尔塔变种使这种乐观期望破灭
The Delta outbreak is going to get much worse, warns Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist who leads the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "The number of intensive-care beds needed could be higher than any time we've seen," he says. He adds that his team's analysis shows that almost every single one of the 100 million unvaccinated Americans who hasn't had COVID-19 yet will likely get it in the coming months, short of taking the sort of strong isolation and masking precautions that seem unlikely in the vaccine-hesitant population.
明尼苏达大学传染病研究和政策中心负责人、流行病学家迈克尔·奥斯特霍尔姆警告说,德尔塔病毒带来的疫情暴发将变得更加严重
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词语解释
1.Still, by March, as the winter surge in the U.S. receded, some epidemiologists were cautiously optimistic that the rapid vaccine rollout would soon tame the variants and cause the pandemic to wind down.
recede 后退;减弱,好转
eg.Just as I started to think that I was never going to get well, the illness began to recede.
就在我开始认为我将永远不会好起来的时候,我的病开始好转
。wind down 平静下来;放松一下;逐步减少
eg.Aid workers have begun winding down their operation.
援助工作人员已开始逐步减少他们的工作
。2.Delta has now shattered that optimism.
shatter 粉碎;打碎;破坏
eg.A failure would shatter the hopes of many people.
一次失败会粉碎很多人的希望
。【近义词】destroy , comminute
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