posted a report of it on a website scientists use to quickly share developments, but it has not been formally reviewed or published in a journal.Q: DOES IT MAKE PEOPLE SICKER OR MORE LIKELY TO DIE?A: “There’s no indication that either of those is true, but clearly those are two issues we’ve got to watch,” Landrigan said.
As more patients get infected with the new variant, “they’ll know fairly soon if the new strain makes people sicker.”A WHO outbreak expert, Maria Van Kerkhove, said that “the information that we have so far is that there isn’t a change” in the kind of illness or its severity.Q: WHAT DO THE MUTATIONS MEAN FOR TREATMENTS?A: A couple of cases in England raise concern that the mutations in some of the emerging new variants.