Thread by @DrEricDing

Sobering—the more infectious #B117 variant will likely become the world's dominant strain, director of 🇬🇧 genetic surveillance @CovidGenomicsUK warned—“it's going to sweep the world, in all probability", Professor Sharon Peacock told BBC. 🧵 #COVID19
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/u…

2) "Once we get on top of it [Covid-19] or it mutates itself out of being virulent - causing disease - then we can stop worrying about it”

“But I think, looking in the future, we're going to be doing this for years. We're still going to be doing this 10 years down the line."

3) latest from Denmark 🇩🇰 CDC, which sequences all #SARSCoV2 samples from all cases now, the % of #COVID19 now #B117 from 🇬🇧 is up to 27% of cases. Denmark CDC is right to be worried. Fast pace of replacement growth. nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-1…

4) Germany 🇩🇪 taking urgent precautions too and locking down longer.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1359785772195414028

5) Some people don’t want to hear the reality that we will soon have a new globally dominant #B117 variant (can we officially say strain yet?!). It’s frustrating to try to warn, but cold water reality is what we need.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1359611878524264453

6) “Experts tell us that it will be only a matter of time until these mutations will become dominant,” Merkel said in a speech to parliament in Berlin. “We know that the danger of mutations can again wreck our successes.”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…