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This comment is something I have wondered: > It's clear that the variant is more dominant (1.2x) in children aged 0-9 yrs and 0-19 yrs. There could be many rea
by jackweirdy 6y ago
This comment is something I have wondered:
> It's clear that the variant is more dominant (1.2x) in children aged 0-9 yrs and 0-19 yrs. There could be many reasons for this - including transmission dynamics - due to high levels of unmitigated transmission in schools during lockdown - which has favoured the variant.
In keeping schools open, I wonder if we have inadvertently nudged natural selection to reward a strain that spreads more effectively in children