Initially British experts said that their evidence suggested the new strain circulating in the UK -- one of several to have emerged internationally in recent months -- was between 50 percent and 70 percent more transmissible.
The groups used slightly different methods, but both matched people with the new variant to those with the older variants, taking into account other variables like age and location and controlling for hospitals being under pressure. The increase in transmissibility associated to the variant was already causing alarm, because the more people the virus infects the more people will suffer serious illness and the risk of death.
It also said the mortality data used in the research only covers eight percent of the total deaths during the study period and said the results "may therefore not be representative of the total population". Researchers think it could be the same set of mutations that has made it more infectious -- although all stress more study is needed.
Anti-inflammatories such as dexamethasone "should work equally as well because it's not related to the virus, it is related to the host response", he said. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have also released early research suggesting their vaccines would still be effective against the strain.Scientists have sought to challenge the belief that the virus will become get less virulent as it evolves to become more infectious.
Is that proper to call those variant as UK variant, Brazil variant and South Africa variant while you are calling China Virus as “COVID-19”? You should be ashamed for being racist to British, Latino and African.
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