210202 | "What if I told you that they're not actually hunting the "South African" variant?"
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It's the same mutation, but this one is homegrown and has been combined with the more infectious UK variant because Johnson wanted us to "learn to live with" the virus...
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-surge-testing-rolled-out-in-parts-of-surrey-after-south-africa-covid-variant-found-in-cases-with-no-travel-links-12205298
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957504/Variant_of_Concern_VOC_202012_01_Technical_Briefing_5_England.pdf
Strange that Hancock mentioned none of these things yesterday... ?????
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
The B.1.1.7, (English variant), is believed to be upto 70% more transmissible and 65% more deadly...and it now seems a new UK variant has evolved to add the E484K mutation, that reduces antibody/vaccine efficacy by ~50%
Introducing the #BorisVariant ??
It's also been confirmed to cause a "significant loss of neutralising activity" from vaccine antibodies ?????
https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/POST-SUBMISSION_vaccine-DCv2-2.pdf
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