Expert: UK variant should be thought of as a new virus

• Published date: 05 April 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Date: 05 April 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, made the warning in an interview with CNN.

"We have to think about the B.1.1.7 variant as almost a brand new virus," he said. "It's acting differently from anything we've seen before, in terms of transmissibility, in terms of affecting young people, so we have to take this very seriously."

The British mutation has been found to be much more contagious than the original strain and is believed to have become the dominant strain in numerous outbreaks in the US and the EU.

Dr. Hotez was optimistic that the coronavirus could still be defeated in the coming months because...