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The NYT had an article estimating 70% more contagious but after quite a lot of scare writing, they quoted a doctor stating that the vaccines and antibodies woul
by Clubber 6y ago
The NYT had an article estimating 70% more contagious but after quite a lot of scare writing, they quoted a doctor stating that the vaccines and antibodies would still work on it.
“No one should worry that there is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity and antibodies useless,” Dr. Bloom said.
“It is going to be a process that occurs over the time scale of multiple years and requires the accumulation of multiple viral mutations,” he added. “It’s not going to be like an on-off switch.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/coronavirus-britain-variant.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/coronavirus-britai...
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- bobcostas55 6y agoI don't think the vaccines are really relevant if it genuinely is 1.7x more contagious. There's no way of getting enough vaccine supplies before we reach herd immunity through normal infection. Even with the current measures we're at ~R=1, so... At best we might have time to protect the oldest people and limit the number of deaths.