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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by nomadking
South Africa will have a higher proportion of the South Africa variant. Bit obvious really.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I don't think that's in contention.
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FYI...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...fe5_story.html
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U.K. coronavirus variant spreading rapidly through United States, study finds
The coronavirus variant that shut down much of the United Kingdom is spreading rapidly across the United States, outcompeting other strains and doubling its prevalence among confirmed infections every week and a half, according to new research made public Sunday.
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The report concludes that the variant has been 35 to 45 percent more transmissible than other strains of the virus in the United States.
“It is here, it’s got its hooks deep into this country, and it’s on its way to very quickly becoming the dominant lineage,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of the new paper.
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