Posted on 12/19/2020 8:19:35 AM PST by 11th_VA
LONDON — Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson began emergency talks with his government ministers Saturday, after scientists said evidence suggests that the new Covid variant was spreading more rapidly.
The U.K. had now informed the World Health Organization that it had concluded the mutant strain could spread more quickly, the chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty said in a statement on Saturday.
"As announced on Monday, the U.K. has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England's genomic surveillance," he said, adding that preliminary modeling data and rising cases in the country's southeast showed "the new strain can spread more quickly."
"We have alerted the World Health Organization and are continuing to analyze the available data to improve our understanding," he said.
However, he insisted that there was "no current evidence to suggest the new strain causes a higher mortality rate or that it affects vaccines and treatments although urgent work is under way to confirm this."...
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COVID-20! "It's just the flu bro"
Just when you thought it was safe to go out again ...
Yes, viruses mutate.
BJ is officially gay and barely smarter than some dude in the distant past by name of Chamberlain...
The Left will milk this naturally-occuring “new strain” tactic (”the experts” have thusfar been wrong about everything else, so why not?) until the liberty-destroying “climate change pandemic” is ready to roll out. There’s no vaccine for that one. That one is permanent.
something has changed the past 48 hours
just 48 hours ago Johnson was attacking those who suggested cancelling Christmas
just in
“We cannot continue with Christmas as planned,” Mr Johnson said as he announced the action “with a very heavy heart” at a Downing Street news conference on Saturday.
“Genomic Surveillance” sounds very dystopic.
Is it a coincidence that the USA announces two vaccines for Covid-19 with a third vaccine due to be ready in early 2021, that a new strain of Covid-19 is not spreading and it will be announced that the new vaccines don’t work with this new strain of Covid....
The timing is great...
This isn’t going to end. It’s too wonderful for the tyrants.
Chi-Com Wuhan virus upgrade NEW release: COVID-19 2.0
A Microsoft Trusted virus.
They have us by the throat.
Why would they ever let go?
It’s us or them.
Is it time?
They wouldn’t be doing this if they thought BiteMe was gonna win...
Have you reread our Declaration of Independence lately?
Our ancestors were shooting by now.
Having already killed Christmas, they bring out the new strain - for Easter.
How many CCP PRCs have the brits let into their country since the threat of a Vaccine became real to Dem CCP PRCs?-)
“...it will be announced that the new vaccines don’t work with this new strain of Covid.......”
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Really? Who will be making this announcement and when will it be?
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