RE: Perfect storm?19 Dec 2020 17:28
Cause for Concern'
Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said: "The new variant contains 23 different changes, many of them associated with changes in the protein that the virus makes. This is an unusually large number of variants. It's also got variants in areas of the virus that are known to be associated with how the virus binds to cells and enters cells. So there are some changes, which cause concern in terms of how the virus looks."
He added: "This virus transmits and spreads fast."
The variant may have originated in the UK, Sir Patrick said: "There's a large outbreak in the UK, it may have started here, we don't know for sure."
Then...”In the South East, 43% of the virus is now this new variant, in Eastern England it's 59%, and in London 62%."
Rates of hospitalisation were higher where the new variant was more prevalent.”
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