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The media should probably just stop reporting on these, at least until there’s a strain out there that really does reliably punch through the vaccines. Otherwise, what’s the point? Neither the vaccinated or the unvaccinated are going to behave differently until there’s a gamechanger.
And the unvaccinated probably won’t behave differently even then.
The new “variant of interest” is C.37, a.k.a. “Lambda,” and it’s been working its way around South America for months. Lately several cases have turned up in the UK, one of a few dozen countries where the variant has been found. The two hardest-hit nations are Chile and especially Peru, where Lambda was detected as far back as last August and now accounts for 81 percent of cases. Peru’s case curve doesn’t look much different than anyone else’s, raising the question of why scientists would be anxious about Lambda:
Covid-19 : le variant Lambda, plus résistant au vaccin et plus contagieux, est arrivé en Europe
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Lambda — the new coronavirus variant puzzling scientists due to its unusual mutations
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