From: karmabum@anashram.com

LONDON (Reuters) - A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year
is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous strains, researchers
said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-variant-britain-idUSKBN2B213E

In a study that compared death rates among people in Britain infected with
the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, known as B.1.1.7, against those infected with
other strains, scientists said the new variant had “significantly higher” mortality.

The B.1.1.7 variant was first detected in Britain in September 2020, and
has since been found in more than 100 countries.

It has 23 mutations in its genetic code - a relatively high number of
changes - and some of these have made it far more able to spread. UK
scientists say it is about 40%-70% more transmissible than previously
dominant circulating coronavirus variants.

In the UK study, published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, infection with the new variant led to 227 deaths in a sample of 54,906
COVID-19 patients, compared with 141 among the same number of patients
infected with other variants.

“Coupled with its ability to spread rapidly, this makes B.1.1.7 a threat
that should be taken seriously,” said Robert Challen, a researcher at
Exeter University who co-led the research.

### - bloody typical how those right-wing shits here played this down when
news of a uk variant first emerged?

they let-on that it was far more infectious but deliberately left a
question mark over the fact that it was anything up to twice as deadly??

oh we didn't want people to panic they'll probably later calmly claim,
possibly because there wasn't enough vaccine available to go around at the
time and they needed the economy to remain open, and when panic is
precisely what people *should've* been allowed to feel so they'd stay off
work and keep their goddamned heads down!

the fuckers... and just goes to show that you can't trust a goddamned word
they tell ya about, well, anything really!

twice as infectious and now twice as deadly too??

geez... next thing they'll let-on is that it's also immune to the current vaccines too???

so wear your masks + get yer shots folks and SCREW all those right-wing... LIES!

coz they obviously DON'T have people's best interests at heart you know!

(if you don't realise this by now then you'll prolly never realise it)

the party of the people they called themselves here??

riiiiiiight.....

more like the enemy of the people if the truth be known!

thus we desperately need NEW politics & politicians on this planet like
never before or we're gonna be living in the dark ages forever??

IF we survive THESE ones that is!

coz in truth we might not!

it's all just hanging in the balance and things may never return to normal?

could thus even be that we've witnessed the peak of our civilisation
before it all fell over and went down like the sack of shit it always was anyway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjpzTys0s9g (yesterday)

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