I understand there is a growing suspicion that the new variant may already be far spread and has only been detected in the UK so quickly because of the effort being put into genomic surveillance.
It has now been found in Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands and Italy.
www.gov.uk/government/news/122-million-boost-for-genomic-surveillance-to-help-stop-transmission-of-covid-19
But it keeps being repeated, except in the drama loving UK press, that the transmission rate seems to have been impacted, but the severity and/or fatality rates have not been. There is *NO* indication that it is more severe.
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