Claim: It's called the Delta Covid-19 variant because you'd have to be completely asleep to believe it.
Fact-check: Covid-19 variants including Delta are real - Full Fact
Verdict: like other viruses, the one that causes covid-19 has variants, which are named after greek letters. types of brain waves are also named this way, which is why there is a delta wave that occurs when people are sleeping. there's plenty of evidence that the delta variant is real, including the fact that it's been sequenced multiple times, has infected and killed people.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2022-11-25T00:00:00