Determining the transmissibility of new variants can aid vaccination programs and healthcare response (IMAGE)
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed methods to quantify how much more or less transmissible new COVID variants are, which could have far-reaching implications for public health in terms of COVID-19 risk and the vaccination levels required to obtain herd immunity. Shown above, frequency of the B.1.1.7 strain in the UK (black dots) with the model prediction (blue line) assuming a transmission advantage of 45% over the baseline.
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