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Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce his plan Monday to loosen Britain's lockdown. The CDC says that by late March, B.1.1.7, the more transmissible coronavirus variant first identified in Britain, could dominate the USA.
USA TODAY LONDON – On Jan. 4, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made yet another somber coronavirus-related address to the nation: A variant first identified in Kent, England, was thought to be 50%-70% more infectious. In little more than a week, hospital admissions had increased by nearly a third. Deaths had risen by 20%. Johnson ordered the country's third full lockdown since the start of the pandemic. "That means," Johnson said, "the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. You may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials...
One of Public Health England's top advisers has accused the Government of doing 'science by press release' by announcing things without telling its scientists. Dr Susan Hopkins, who has appeared alongside senior ministers in Downing Street press conferences throughout the pandemic, vented her frustration in leaked emails seen by Politico. The email came in the wake of Health Secretary Matt Hancock's first announcement about the Kent variant on December 14. The mutated strain of the virus hadn't been mentioned to the public before a shock press conference less than a fortnight before Christm...
Dido Harding sent her letter to the UK Parliament's science committee alongside a report that concluded 'the impact of contact tracing is relatively small' and said it was unlikely to improve.
Mathematician Kit Yates at UK's Bath University calculated the diameter of SARS-CoV-2 and came up with this fascinating analogy.