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The last leg of the COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as a race between variants and vaccines, and the variants have jumped out to a large lead.
In Grey-Bruce, a little over 20 per cent of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic now involve a variant of concern.
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Variants first emerged in Grey-Bruce a little over two months ago.
“They are very effective in transmission. It is a gamechanger. The younger age of deaths as we’ve heard provincially, again, is a concerning variable and something we didn’t see before,” said Dr. Ian Arra, Grey-Bruce’s medical officer of health.