Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, said recent data reported by the British government suggest a new, more virulent strain of the coronavirus is also more deadly, but said U.S. officials needed to examine the numbers themselves.
Asked by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about his earlier claims that the strain, while more infectious, was apparently no deadlier, Fauci said: “The data that came out was after they had been saying all along that it did not appear to be more deadly. So that’s where we got that information.”
DEADLIER NEW #COVID STRAIN? Biden's Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @margbrennan that recent British data likely suggests the new #covid19 strain is deadlier, but “we want to look at the data ourselves"
WATCH –> pic.twitter.com/jzbTyaZAIX
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 24, 2021
……..
Fauci went on to say Americans “need to assume now that what has been circulating dominantly in the U.K. does have a certain increase in what we call virulence, namely the power of the virus to cause more damage, including death.”
……..
VIRUS MUTANTS: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @margbrennan that the #Covid19 variant found in South Africa has a “negative impact” on some antibody therapies.
In *some* cases it “diminishes the efficacy of the vaccine,” but he stresses that the vaccine remains effective over all. pic.twitter.com/u7u4pl2ckO
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 24, 2021
- Discussion
-
Fauci: "We have to assume now" that British virus strain can "cause more damage" https://t.co/ZvfeBWGLfP pic.twitter.com/OwAdEGraLQ
— The Hill (@thehill) January 24, 2021
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.