‘There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
‘A more transmissible variant of COVID-19 is a potential catastrophe in and of itself. If anything, given the stage in the pandemic we are at, a more transmissible variant is in some ways much more dangerous than a more severe variant. That’s because higher transmissibility subjects us to a more contagious virus spreading with exponential growth, whereas the risk from increased severity would have increased in a linear manner, affecting only those infected.’
Read here (The Atlantic, Jan 1, 2021)
