Tracking news about the mutated strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) variant.
UNC Professor Calles Mutated COVID-19 A “Ticking Time Bomb.” “A more transmissible variant of COVID-19 is a potential catastrophe in and of itself. If anything, given the stage in the pandemic we are at, a more transmissible variant is in some ways much more dangerous than a more severe variant. That’s because higher transmissibility subjects us to a more contagious virus spreading with exponential growth, whereas the risk from increased severity would have increased in a linear manner, affecting only those infected.” [Defense One]
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