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- DanBC 6y agoB117 new variant covid is significantly worrying because it's more transmissible than regular covid, and about the same lethality. People have got comfortable with measures to tackle regular covid, and those are not enough to tackle B117. In particular, people are not maintaining distance and they are using inadequate masks. This not helped by the English system of "tiers" combined with legal regulations and government advice which create an incoherent mess of requirements that are difficult to understand and follow. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/211793/new-covid-19-variant-growing-rapidly-england/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/211793/new-covid-19-variant-... https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-12-31-COVID19-Report-42-Preprint-VOC.pdf https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...