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Infectious-Disease Expert Warns Of New, More ‘Virulent’ COVID-19 Strain From U.K.

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Infectious-Disease Expert Warns Of New, More ‘Virulent’ COVID-19 Strain From U.K.
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Authorities should assume the worst about a new strain of the coronavirus, the U.S.’s top infectious-disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave the warning on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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“We need to assume now that what has been circulating dominantly in the U.K. does have a certain degree of increase in what we call virulence, namely the power of the virus to cause more damage, including death,” Fauci said.

He was discussing a recent finding that a new form of the virus originating in the United Kingdom has a 30 per cent higher mortality rate for people aged 60 and older than the original strain.

“That’s a significant increase,” Fauci remarked.

“We want to look at the data ourselves, but we have every reason to believe them,” he said of British authorities.

Regarding a different strain originating in South Africa, Fauci said vaccines appear to be less effective against it “in some cases.”

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Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, former President Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, shed new light on the previous administration’s attitude toward the outbreak.

“There were people in the White House … who definitely believed that this was a hoax,” Birx said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The information was confusing at the beginning.

“Everyone interpreted it based on what they knew,” she added.

Birx — who famously stood by in silence during a rambling April 2020 press conference in which Trump touted bleach as a potential COVID-19 remedy — said she “always” considered quitting his dysfunctional task force.

“Why would you want to put yourself through that every day?” she said.

“I had to ask myself every morning: Is there something that I think I can do that would be helpful in responding to this pandemic?

And “it’s something I asked myself every night,” added Birx, who said in December she was planning to retire. (tca/dpa/NAN)

 

 

 

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