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- The UK coronavirus mutation is spreading faster than other variants and has reached several other countries, including America.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a discussion with California Governor Gavin Newsom that he was not surprised to hear the B.1.1.7 variant was already spreading in the US.
- The NIAID director also offered great news about the mutation, revealing that early data from Great Britain shows people who recovered from COVID-19 aren’t more susceptible to a new infection with the mutated virus.
- The finding indicates that vaccines would work against the mutation as well.
Several countries have started vaccinating people with one of the three COVID-19 vaccine candidates that have received emergency use authorization so far. The rollout of vaccines is slow because there’s not enough supply. The drugs offer great immunity against severe COVID-19, but that protection needs a few weeks to set in. That’s why it will be several months before vaccines start slowing down outbreaks across the country and around the world. That’s also why protective measures will still be required for most of 2021 so that the risk of COVID-19 spread can further be reduced.
The reality is that the pathogen is still spreading wildly, with the US and most of Europe still dealing with significant COVID-19 outbreaks that continue to set new records. The novel coronavirus mutated early during the pandemic into a more contagious version that swept the globe. In late 2020, we learned that the virus had acquired another set of genetic changes that further increased its ability to infect cells. The UK mutation disclosed a few weeks ago, also known as B.1.1.7, is a collection of 17 genetic changes that the virus has acquired. The theory is that the virus mutated in an immunosuppressed patient with an active COVID-19 infection that lasted for several months. The result is a coronavirus version that’s even more infectious than its “parents,” and that version is largely responsible for Britain’s record number of cases. B.1.1.7 isn’t more deadly and it doesn’t cause more severe COVID-19. It spreads more efficiently than before though, and the strain has already been discovered in various countries, the US included.
Experts are still studying the new strain for definitive answers, but Dr. Anthony Fauci already has some good news about B.1.1.7. The new strain doesn’t appear to reinfect COVID-19 patients who have already recovered, and that’s actually fantastic news for vaccines.
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