Running out of candidates to infect is the normal end state for a pandemic, in other words, it creates herd immunity all on its own.<\/p>\n
Delta Spreads So Quickly It \u2018Runs Out Of Candidates\u2019 To Infect, Says WHO Expert<\/a><\/p>\n A World Health Organization (WHO) expert said the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads so fast that it runs out of people to infect, but also warned that while infections could decline just as fast as the infections increase, \u201cthere may be more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Epidemiology expert Larry Brilliant\u00a0explained that based on models of Delta variant outbreaks in New York and San Francisco, the variant is spreading in \u201can inverted V-shape epidemic curve<\/a>.\u201d He told CNBC that the models suggest Delta infections are increasing fast, but the infections will also decline very quickly.<\/p>\n Brilliant\u2019s projection of the variant\u2019s spreading, if it turns out to be true, means that the virus continues to spread so fast that \u201cit basically runs out of candidates\u201d to infect, but it will also start receding following high records of infection.<\/p>\n