United Kingdom.- The highly contagious variant of the UK coronavirus should be treated as “almost a new virus,” one expert said Monday. Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor Medical School, warned against assuming that the variant acts as previously known strains of the coVID-19 virus.
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“We need to think of variant B.1.1.7 as almost a new virus,” he told CNN.
It’s acting differently than anything we’ve seen before, in terms of transmissibility, in terms of affecting young people, so we have to take this very seriously.
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The new variant of the UK has more than one country increasing in the number of coronavirus cases. afp
Their emergence has caused several countries in Europe to be blocked again and could have devastating consequences in the United States.Hotez predicted that Americans should adhere to public health rules for “another four to six weeks, and then we will be on the other side.”
All vaccines seem to work just as well against this VARIANT UK-B.1.1.7 … so that’s very good news, he said.
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“But if you are not vaccinated, you must behave as if you are very vulnerable to this virus. This is no time to get sick,” he added.
