{"id":6797,"date":"2021-02-21T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/top-scientist-says-contagious-u-k-covid-19-variant-likely-to-sweep-the-world\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:02:23","slug":"top-scientist-says-contagious-u-k-covid-19-variant-likely-to-sweep-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/top-scientist-says-contagious-u-k-covid-19-variant-likely-to-sweep-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Scientist Says Contagious U.K. Covid-19 Variant Likely To \u2018Sweep The World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline The infectious coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K. is likely to become the dominant form of the virus worldwide, the director of the country\u2019s genetic surveillance program said Thursday, as she predicted that scientists will be hunting for potentially dangerous new mutations of the virus for the next ten years. A British expert predicts the country&#8217;s variant will &#8220;sweep the world&#8221; after becoming the dominant &#8230; [+] virus in the U.K. getty Key Facts Professor Sharon Peacock, a Cambridge academic and director of the Genomics U.K. Consortium, said the now-dominant variant in the U.K. had \u201cswept the country\u201d and is \u201cgoing to sweep the world.\u201d Studies have shown that the variant, known as B.1.1.7, is significantly more infectious than existing strains and potentially more deadly. While current vaccines appear to work against the U.K. variant, Peacock said new mutations could be \u201cparticularly problematic with vaccines,\u201d adding that they will likely need to be \u201ctweaked\u201d in the future. Peacock said the U.K. variant was already mutating in ways that could undermine vaccination efforts, pointing to \u201cfive separate times\u201d it had acquired one of the same vaccine-threatening mutations seen in South African and Brazilian variants, making it likely the virus will trouble scientists for years to come. \u201cOnce we get on top of (the virus) or it mutates itself out of being virulent &#8211; causing disease -&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Forbes<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/roberthart\/2021\/02\/11\/top-scientist-says-contagious-uk-covid-19-variant-likely-to-sweep-the-world\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topline The infectious coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K. is likely to become the dominant form of the virus worldwide, the director of the country\u2019s genetic surveillance program said Thursday, as she predicted that scientists will be hunting for potentially dangerous new mutations of the virus for the next ten years. 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