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Just How Much More Transmissible Is the New Coronavirus Variant? – MedPage Today
British researchers come up with numbers
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant first appearing in southern England has a transmission advantage of 0.4 to 0.7 points higher in reproduction number, also known as R0, compared to the initial strain, British researchers found.
This variant, called 202012/01, has a “substantial transmission advantage,” meaning its reproduction numbers could vary from 1.4 to 1.8, according to a multi-disciplinary team based at Imperial College London (ICL), who published their findings on the school’s website.
Led by ICL’s…
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