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Brazil COVID variant 2.5 times more transmissible than ancestral strain – News-Medical.Net
In early January 2021, a new variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified from travelers returning from Brazil. This variant,…
In early January 2021, a new variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified from travelers returning from Brazil. This variant, referred to as “P.1”, likely emerged in early-to-late November 2020, and subsequently spread throughout Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil, over the following December.
Researchers from Brazil modeled the rates of infection from ‘susceptible’ individuals to ‘exposed’ individuals for the P.1 variant, and found that the rate…
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