U.K. Variant Isn't Linked To More Severe COVID Infections Or Death: Study | Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM
By Bill Galluccio Apr 13, 2021 A new study has found that the U.K. coronavirus variant, known as B.1.1.7, doesn't cause a more severe infection and is not deadlier than the original strain. Scientists are trying to understand more about the new strain, which is more contagious and is now the dominant strain in the United States and Europe. "We were able to do this real-time analysis because we were in the eye of the storm," said a lead author of the study, Dan Frampton, a bioinformatician at University College London. While patients with the variant had a higher "viral load" than patie...