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Just wait until you get the British variant. Edit: to explain my point a bit: the British variant has a higher reproductive number. The existing immunity and m
by legulere 6y ago
Just wait until you get the British variant.
Edit: to explain my point a bit: the British variant has a higher reproductive number. The existing immunity and measures in some cases can be enough to reduce the numbers of the traditional variants, while not being enough to stop the growth of the British variant. This is happening in Germany for instance right now. Currently the numbers are suddenly stagnating and soon will start to rise again while the measures stay the same.
- mrtesthah 6y agoThe South African variant is already known to escape neutralization by convalescent serum containing covid antibodies. It's too early to see whether T-cell immunity will be adaptive enough to handle it in vivo. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1
- williesleg 6y agoThat's pretty racist calling them by nationality.
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- nostromo 6y agoWhy spread FUD? Both vaccines in the US seem to be effective against variants.
- dogma1138 6y agoThe article isn’t about vaccinations but rather primarily about “naturally attained” immunity. The US isn’t going to hit 80% vaccination by April.
- rawfan 6y agoThe British variant spreads faster than you can possibly vaccinate people. In Germany the case numbers are still going down, but if you look at the wildtype and B.1.1.7 separately, the wildtype is going down while the British variant is in full exponential growth. And that is in spite of a full nationwide hard lockdown.
- VMG 6y ago*than Germany can possibly vaccinate people
- jessaustin 6y agoI would expect Germany to rank near the top of any world ranking of "capacity for effective public action". Brazil and its twin USA are not at the top of those rankings.
- VMG 6y agoYou'd be mistaken.
- chimprich 6y ago> The British variant spreads faster than you can possibly vaccinate people. This is a bit overblown. In the UK the B 1.1.7 variant is the dominant form by far, but vaccinations are outpacing infections by a long way. Today there were 10,641 new cases recorded, and a 7-day mean of daily vaccination doses delivered of about 350k: about 35 times the current infection rate. Infections have been falling for weeks, albeit with quite a tight lockdown. Vaccinations have been declining slightly for the past week but expected to accelerate again soon.
- Closi 6y agoPfizer has stated that their virus might not have the same efficacy against some of the variants - in particular the ones that have included changes to the spike protein. This includes one of the two British variants (the one from Bristol rather than the one from Kent).