England 🏴 now has near total #B117 variant domination. It is now fully 97% of all #COVID19 cases in London. Total cases are down but B117 still up. Denmark 🇩🇰 also saw B117 fraction surge 70% increase per week after week even despite lockdown, total 🇩🇰 domination by end of Feb. 
2) Denmark #B117. Total domination expected by Danish CDC by end of Feb.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1353982021996044288
3) #ZeroCovid is the best way forward with #b117.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346899021621813249
4) here is how the B117 compared versus common strain: 6x worse in just 2 weeks in this scenario.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1348082462509961216
5) B117 is also deadlier potentially by 30%. 7 of 10 studies agree.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1353468238773035008
6) Denmark is leading the world in sequencing - by sequencing EVERY SINGLE DAMN CASES of new COVID19 in the country. They are just that worried. They also just found several cases of the South African #B1351 variant too because of it.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1353297240610189315
7) Here is a simulation of #B117 in US assuming a modest 1 mil vaccinations per day and holding R at just 1.1. It’s still not flattening the curve (see grey band). And that’s assume we don’t screw it up and allow R to be over 1.1– but I fear we will be.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1353304055175663622
8) #B117 is so infectious, Canada 🇨🇦 provincial local health depts think just a few minutes or even 1 second without mask of close contact is enough for infection. See 🧵
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1356902000714211328
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