12-23-2020, 04:11 PM
(12-23-2020, 04:05 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: What DOES matter is that the implications are effectively communicated so that that people understand that this change makes the virus spread more easily, but that it is believed the vaccine will still be effective.
This is, in fact, not yet established. It seems to have spread quickly in southern England, but it has also been detected in other countries where no similarly rapid spread has been observed. There are speculations about what mechanism could possibly enable faster spread, but at this time no significant evidence for those, either, yet. At this point there are hundreds (or thousands?) of scientists working on this, and we'll likely know more fairly soon. But, as of now, it's not yet confirmed.