UK Faces Food Shortages As A Result Of Conflicted Government Science
By John Stone
European countries have been shutting down their borders with the United Kingdom following advice that it harbours a 70% more contagious version of the Covid virus, which has already led to the new Tier 4 lockdown arrangements in Southern England and the effective cancellation of Christmas. Whether the mutation is actually more contagious is a matter for dispute between two Oxford professors. The case that the “strain” is more contagious has been hypothesised by the Nervtag advisory committee led by Prof Peter Horby. According to the Daily Mail Prof Horby, who is Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, said the figure of 70 per cent was based on converging data .
Children may be more at-risk of catching the new mutated coronavirus variant than any previous strains, Government advisers today claimed.
Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist of Imperial College London and member of No10 s advisory group NERVTAG, said there was a hint children - who have barely been affected by the pandemic so far - were more susceptible to the mutation.
The academic, known as Professor Lockdown , was instrumental in the UK s March restrictions but stepped down from his advisory position on SAGE after he flaunted the guidance he helped implement to visit his married lover.
He said it is possible the surge of the new variant, called B.1.1.7, during the November lockdown which occurred in school term-time could have happened because the variant is better at infecting children than past SARS-CoV-2 iterations.
The mutated coronavirus spreading rapidly in the UK will likely become the dominant global strain, a SAGE expert warned today after No10 revealed Gibraltar has become the fifth place outside of Britain to confirm a case of the new variant.
Professor Calum Semple, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Liverpool, claimed the new variant would out-compete all the other strains because it has the evolutionary advantage of being able to spread more easily.
The strain, currently called VUI-202012/01, has already been confirmed in Denmark, Gibraltar, the Netherlands, Australia and Italy. There have also been unverified reports of cases in Belgium.