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Faster-Spreading Covid Strain Affects Young the Most, Study Says – BloombergQuint
Social distancing norms that worked against earlier strains of the virus were insufficient to control spread of the new variant.

(Bloomberg) — The new coronavirus variant that emerged in the U.K. is more transmissible and appears to affect a higher proportion of people under 20, according to a report from Imperial College London and other science groups.
The mutation of concern has a substantial transmission advantage and is linked to epidemic growth in nearly all areas, the scientists wrote. It can raise the viruss reproduction rate, which indicates how many people one patient infects, by as much as 0.7, the researchers…
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