UK COVID-19 variant is ‘going to sweep the world

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By Natalie O'NeillFebruary 11, 2021 | 2:05pm

The highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19 will likely become the world’s most dominant strain, according to a top UK molecular biologist — who warned that scientists may be forced to monitor the mutating virus for the next decade.
[Bad news, and won't go into specifics so as not to give anyone any ideas, but this is going to be with humanity for more than a decade, and it can and likely will be more deadly at some point in the future].

“[It] is going to sweep the world, in all probability,” Professor Sharon Peacock, head of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium, said of the UK strain, known as B.1.1.7, on the BBC’s “Newscast” Thursday.

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Evidence suggests vaccines work against the strain, which is up to 70 percent more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus — but scientists fear it will evolve to become like the South African strain, which is believed to be more inoculation-resistant.

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