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With an unpronounceable named mutation in the spike reaches 8% of uk sequenced cases. we need urgent research he says to figure out if this delta plus, there is a name, is more transmissible and has partial immune evasion. how concerned are you? how concerned should we be? >> brian, its a little too early to say. whenever you do see a variant thats becoming more common, which is what happened with the delta variant over the course of the spring and into the summer, as we saw it become more and m...

How significant is significant? >> i want to wait and see what they say because the sigcience limited. a study from the national ins stults of health demonstrated moderna or pfizer, regardless of what they got for the first one got the best boost. those who got j & j, giving them the pfizer got a better boost than from the j & j. we have stock in the country but the data are saying mrna boosters do a better job. there is limited data and its very confusing right now for people who want to get bo...

Foundation was founded with money from the johnson family fortune and we have stock in the company. but the data are saying that the mrna boosters do a better job. ill be interested to see what fda says because there is limited data, and its very confusing right now for people who want to get boosters, having them available for some but not for everybody. >> the former fda commissioner scott gottlieb is calling for urgent research into a mutation of the delta variant known as delta+ following a ...

Than the original delta variant. the new subvariant has only recently been recognised by virologists. francois balloux, director of the genetic institute at university college london has been tracking the new variant. we dont really have a much hard information at this stage, but if we look at it, given the mutation and mutation it carries it seems relatively unlikely that it would be better at escaping immunity of a vaccination or prior infection and i would like to stress that its not a situat...

There were another 223 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. thats the highest daily figure since the middle of march. it comes as there has been a new mutation of the delta variant. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, has more. scientists are looking at a new type of the delta variant which has been detected just to see whether it spreads more rapidly than delta itself. there is no firm evidence at this stage that it does, but they are watching that, although they say its not at this stage a varia...

By about 60% over the last month. that particular sort of sub variant of delta has actually been seen in declining quantities in the united states through our surveillance program, but it does bear watching, you need to learn a lot more about it. it does have a mutation in the spike protein. we need to understand if that has implications of the way our vaccine works. there will be more to come on that. >> dr. jonathan reiner, thank you. >> my pleasure. two months since the chaotic u.s. pullout...

That doesnt mean the risk doesnt exist. and the bottom line is that the more virus is in circulation anywhere in the world, the more cases that were seeing, the more chances that a random mutation may lead to an advantage and emergence of a new variant. every new case is a lottery ticket for the virus to produce a variant, so we need to remain vigilant about that. but at the moment, delta remains dominant everywhere. >> i like the way you put that. a lottery ticket issue. i have been -- this thi...

Escape. so at the moment, the delta variant is the dominant variant everywhere and were not seeing other variants really who have a chance of outcompeting. that doesnt mean that the risk doesnt exist. and the bottom line is that the more virus is in circulation anywhere in the world, the more cases that were seeing, the more chances that a random mutation may lead to an advantage in the emergence of a new variant. is so every new case is a lottery ticket for the virus to produce a variant. we ne...

Virus mutations give rise to new variants which can be more dangerous like the Delta variant. Restrictions, vaccinations and lockdowns help to limit the opportunities the virus has to mutate.

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