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A top scientist explains why a more infectious coronavirus variant is a bigger problem than a deadlier strain

. But according to Adam Kucharski, associate professor at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the fact the variant is more easily spread means it is potentially more dangerous than a deadlier strain would be. that a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would, in general, be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly.

Even if it turns out that some component of it was behavior and another component was changes in the virus, that's still an increase in transmission, which is going to be an accelerating problem to deal with. AK: We've seen in the UK that this new variant has come up really dramatically through Autumn — even in places where there was quite a lot of infection already, this strain has really come up faster. So it's completely accurate to say that it's spreading faster than [the variants] already there.

What would generally happen in the data is you'd get this kind of 'dilution effect.' Say by chance, a new variant that didn't have any intrinsic differences got into a population that just weren't following the rules, and there was a lot more transmission in that group.

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Again, this variant could not mutate this fast naturally. It should take 25 to 50 years to mutate. Just like covid should have take 100 years to mutate. It is Chinese Bio-warfare on the world. It is WWIII.

Wtf? 100 years ago, the only solution was lockdown. Today, with massive technology, the only solution is lockdown.

Great! 2021 just got bigger and better really?

thanks for this news Merry Christmas))

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