Delta COVID Variant Doubles Risk of Hospitalization for Severe Illness, Study Finds

A doctor in Louisiana sees COVID-19 patients.Photo: Mario Tama/GettyAs hospitals nationwide fill up with patients — mostly unvaccinated — who are severely ill withthe delta variant of COVID-19, a new study has confirmed that the strain significantly increases the risk of hospitalization.Researchers had already found thatdelta is the most contagious strain of COVID-19seen so far, and this study, published Friday in the journalLancet Infectious Diseases, shows that the variant more than doubles the risk of hospitalization.

Delta Employee Allegedly Refused to Communicate with Deaf Couple, Threw Out Note They Wrote Her

Photo: Melissa Elmira Yingst After attending a conference in Detroit, a couple headed to the airport to return home to Los Angeles, but the trip took a nightmare turn. When Socorro Garcia and Melissa Elmira Yingst, who are both deaf, arrived at the Delta check-in counter on Sunday, they asked to be seated together, and the desk agent said the gate agent would handle it, the couple explained ina video posted to Facebook.

Delta Employee Shot and Killed in Parking Lot Near Atlanta Airport

Photo: FacebookA Delta Air Lines is mourning the loss of one of their own after an employee was shot in a parking lot outside of an Atlanta airport.Alexis Reed, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at an employee parking lot near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Sunday night, the College Park Police Department told PEOPLE.Police said officers located an unresponsive Reed at the scene around 10:30 p.m. and immediately provided medical assistance.

Delta Fined $50,000 for Ordering Muslim Passengers Off Planes Despite Their Clearance to Fly

Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Delta Air Lines is facing a major fine fordiscriminating against its passengers, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. In aconsent orderreleased on Friday, the airline was fined $50,000 in violation of anti-bias laws after removing three Muslim passengers from their respective flights in 2016. The federal department also ordered Delta to provide cultural-sensitivity training to all cabin crew members and customer service staff involved in the cases.

Delta Flight Attendants Personally Purchase Special Items for Afghan Children on Evacuation Plane

Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo One Delta Airlines crew recently stepped up in a special way to help a group of children fleeing Afghanistan. Flight attendants on an emergency flight out of Germanypersonally purchased various items"on their own initiative" the night before the trip, pilot Alexander Kahn said Friday in an interview with John Berman on CNN’sNew Day. “Spending their own money, they purchased diapers and wipes and candy and balloons and coloring books and other things they knew the evacuees were going to need,” he told Berman.