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b_b · 1220 days ago · link · · parent · post: More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant
Just trying to read what's out there, and there isn't much. It's difficult to say if Boris Johnson was a moron or a pragmatist by saying what the worst case scenario is (70% more infective). It turns out that that number isn't based on experimental data, but rather pure modeling. The scientist who helped derive the model says herself in that article that there's no data on whether the heightened transmissibility is entirely due to human behavior. Apparently, the same mutation has been seen in up to 90% of South African samples for some time now, so it isn't exactly novel.