DELTA by FACETOUCHER

On Friday, officials found the Delta variant in Victoria after genomic sequencing.

The Delta variant has now become one the most — if not the most — worrisome strain of the coronavirus circulating globally. It has multiple mutations that give it an advantage over other strains. The mutations make the strain more transmissible, with a 2.61 times higher risk of hospitalisation within 14 days than the Alpha variant, and a 1.67 times higher risk of A&E care within 14 days. These figures take into account factors such as age, sex, ethnicity, area of residence and vaccination status.

Increased transmissibility is an exponential threat. If a virus that could previously infect three people on average can now infect four, it looks like a small increase. Yet if you start with just two infected people in both scenarios, just 10 iterations later, the former will have caused about 40,000 cases while the latter will be more than 524,000, a nearly 13-fold difference.

CORONACORE

COVIDWAVE

PLAGUENOISE

improvised noises made at home with vocals and computerdrums and long feedback manipulations in order to somehow mark this monumental epoch in time through the cathartic process of making sound

another project by A DEMON SHEEN, created on Yowenjerre lands.