Submitted by number1dork t3_120rixo in askscience
Alwayssunnyinarizona t1_jdj082m wrote
Reply to comment by pfmiller0 in What happened to the old COVID variants, like Delta? Could they come back? by number1dork
Some derivative of it likely does, but it's been eons (in viral time) since delta was first identified, so almost without a doubt it has continued to evolve in those reservoirs - much like mammoths have gone extinct but we still see their close relatives in elephants. For the time being, anyway.
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