The new variant is basically a bad cold if you're already vaccinated against the existing variants. In general it seems to be about as dangerous as the alpha an

The new variant is basically a bad cold if you're already vaccinated against the existing variants. In general it seems to be about as dangerous as the alpha and delta variants, though the data isn't completely in yet. So it's still a serious threat to non-vaccinated people, and anyone that's immunocompromised, whether they're vaccinated or not. From a public health perspective, non-vaccinated populations are a petri dish for new variants to develop in, and those future variants could potentially be more dangerous.