We break down what’s known about the new UK COVID variant: what it is, what’s meant by ‘more transmissible’, and potential effects on vaccine efficacy.

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We discuss:

• A new COVID variant in the UK is reported to be 71% more transmissible than ‘wild type’ virus [00:01:45];
• The epidemiologic data on the new variant [00:03:09];
• NERVTAG has ‘moderate confidence’ of increased transmissibility [00:04:56];
• UK technical briefing shows no increase in 28 day mortality for new variant (at least so far) [00:06:02]
• A South African variant shows similar behavior as UK virus [00:06:45];
• Potential effects of new variant mutations on vaccine efficacy [00:09:00];
• And More.

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