Are we at the super variant in the UK? (That is … you will soon discover the huge mistake we are making)
There is something wrong, and not only Vasco Rossi says it. The anomaly is in the United Kingdom where the number of Covid-19 cases has exceeded 40,000 despite the population being largely vaccinated.
Not wanting to dramatize, it seems that the number of deaths has still remained very low, at around 56, albeit slightly increasing. However, something is wrong, and it is obvious. The theories about it?
The UK thought it mostly licked COVID, but Dr. Scott Gottlieb (former head of the US FDA) warned on Monday that a new "super-strain" evolved from the delta variant could be behind a recent increase in cases in the UK, only after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his secretary to health have announced plans to ease restrictions on travel abroad.
On Twitter, Dr. Gottlieb pointed out that the UK recently had its largest single-day increase in new COVD cases in 3 months. At the same time, notes Dr. Gottlieb, the new variant known as AY.4v with the S: Y145H mutation in the spike has spread rapidly and currently comprises 8% of new confirmed cases in the UK.
The UK reported 57 new deaths on Sunday, along with 45,140 more cases. The fact that this daily tally is the highest in three months is what is raising the concerns raised by Dr. Gottlieb.
Dr Gottlieb, a former head of the FDA, said the UK and other countries need to step up research on a new variant. In particular, more research is needed to establish whether the new variant is more transmissible: "We need urgent research to understand whether this boastful 'Delta plus' is more transmissible, or has partial immune evasion," he said. . “There is no clear indication that it is considerably more transmissible, but we should work to characterize these and other new variants more quickly. We have the tools ”.
UK reported its biggest one-day Covid case increase in 3 months just as the new delta variant AY.4 with the S: Y145H mutation in the spike reaches 8% of UK sequenced cases. We need urgent research to figure out if this delta plus is more transmissible, has partial immune evasion?
– Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) October 17, 2021
The mutation Dr. Gottlieb talks about has been spreading in the UK since about July.
The variant has been in the UK since about July, but it has been slowly increasing in prevalence. There's no clear indication that it's considerably more transmissible, but we should work to more quickly characterize these and other new variants. We have the tools.
– Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) October 17, 2021
This is not a cause for immediate concern but a reminder that we need robust systems to identify, characterize new variants. This needs to be a coordinated, global priority for Covid same as similar international efforts have become standard practice in influenza.
– Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) October 17, 2021
As he explains this is not an immediate call to action or a return to a dry and immediate lockdown. Instead, a "coordinated global" response is needed in terms of research and other measures to keep an eye on the next cycle of variants and "super variants".
So, in the end, all this certainty of non-diffusion of Covid-19, especially in its variants, does not exist. Maybe the contagion will be less harmful, as it appears to be, but the contagion is still spreading and at a level that is equivalent to what was seen during the winter. What about mass vaccination? Gone.
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