A look at why the U.K. is finding new strains of COVID-19

Europe correspondent Paul Waldie says the U.K. believes the latest variant was spreading for ‘at least’ a couple months.

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27 comments

    1. I understand their reasoning, but it doesn’t stand up when you consider viruses are inevitably going to mutate and there is a decent chance it has happened here in Canada but has not been noticed.

    2. @Aiden Rajkovic If you don’t sequence the viruses you don’t know which muted variants disappeared and which ones continue and become dominant… until the pulmonary infection season is over…

    1. Yeah lets go for herd immunity and over a million dead. Makes a lot of sense if you hate your parents and grandparents. NOT get real.

  1. How fortunate for those pushing lockdowns, that there is a new strain of covid almost at the same time they are rolling out the vaccines.

  2. when thousands of samples of contagion go missing from the level 4 biolabs there’s no mystery as to why uk finds new strains.

  3. They’re finding “new strains” right after coming out with these vaccines, because they need a reason to keep these lock downs going regardless.

  4. If we couldn’t contain the normally contagious COVID. How will lockdowns help the super contagious COVID.

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