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As coronavirus cases remain at significantly high levels in the UK, the vaccine rollout programme continues. Last week the UK regulatory body, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), approved the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for use in the UK.
TORONTO One of the toughest battles for health officials in the war against COVID-19 has been fighting disinformation and opposition to public safety measures. For Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the source of that opposition has sometimes been standing beside him at press conferences in a thick red tie. U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly floated the idea that injecting a disinfectant somehow cures COVID-19 (it doesnât), defied a state order to wear a mask during a visit to Michigan in May and openly encouraged protesters upset with their stateâs stay-at-home orders. A Cornell University study published in October cited Trump as the biggest driver of COVID-19 disinformation throughout the pandemic.
Published: Jan 06, 2021 By Mark Terry
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has mutated into several strains. Most of them are not particularly different than the primary strains, but two, B.1.1.7, which was first observed in the U.K., and now 501.V2, which originated in South Africa, have virologists
watching closely. Although neither strain appears to be more deadly or to cause more severe illness than earlier strains, both appear to be more transmissible, or “catchy.”
The South African variant has been identified in the U.K., Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Australia, Zambia, France and South Korea, so far. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said, “I would be surprised if it were not already in the United States, but you never know until you find it, and then prove it’s here. But thus far, we have not detected the South African strain.”
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