Brown University s Dr. Jha warns the new super-covid variants from UK and South Africa could make pandemic up to FIVE TIMES deadlier by infecting more people faster and overwhelming hospitals
Dr Ashish K Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, has issued a warning about the new super-covid variants
The B.1.1.7 strain first detected in the UK has now infected at least 37 people in seven states while the strain found in South Africa has not yet reached the U.S.
Jha warns that the pandemic could become up to five times deadlier because the new variants will infect more people faster and overwhelm hospitals
Covid vaccine rollout urgent as new strains take hold AFP
This picture taken on 23 November 2020 shows a bottle labelled ‘Vaccine Covid-19’ next to US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech logos. Picture: Joel Saget/AFP Drugmakers worldwide defied predictions by finalising not just one vaccine in record time, but half a dozen.
The spread of more infectious coronavirus strains in Britain and South Africa, with isolated cases of the UK variant appearing in dozens of countries, has made inoculating a maximum number of people as quickly as possible more urgent than ever, experts say.
Here’s a rundown on how the vaccination story is unfolding:
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