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Originally Posted by Damien
Good News from South Africa!
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Not what I'd call good news. Previous reports suggested it was something like 90% milder.
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Originally Posted by nffc
I also saw earlier that there is the possibility it isn't much more transmissible than Delta, but that the immune escape makes it appear that way, as it will be able to infect more people than Delta is. I guess that one is going to take a while to back up.
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The Norwegian party incident suggests it is much more transmissible.
https://sciencenorway.no/covid19/at-...n-oslo/1949790
I don't remember anything close to that happening in the early days of the pandemic (e.g the Chinese bus study)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2770172