This is a bit over the top. C1.2 hasn’t even been named as a variant of interest. There have only been around 100 samples of the variant found (per WHO). We simply don’t know enough about it or its reproduction rate to be labelling it a “doomsday” variant.https://twitter.com/newscomauHQ/status/1432450061560995847 …
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Replying to @CaseyBriggs
This seems extraordinarily premature. Thus far, there isn't even any evidence that this variant is spreading more quickly, only that it may in the future. Certainly I don't see any estimates of how much more infectious it *might* be
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This news story seems to take the genetic distance from the ancestral strain and present that as a measure of transmissibility
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The preprint does highlight this, so I don't think it's entirely unfair to note that it *may* be more transmissible, but saying anything more concrete at this point seems premature
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From my reading of the preprint, they've basically said that this new strain has a lot of features (including epidemiological ones) consistent with other highly transmissible variants, but also has a few more mutations that may make it worse
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