The government says that since WHO nomenclature doesn't use 'Indian variant', use of the term is tantamount to spreading 'false news/misinformation' about coronavirus.
Dr. Nancy Nielsen discusses issues related to COVID-19 each Thursday with WBFO.
Dr. Nancy Nielsen is the Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy at UB s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
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A visible case of breakthrough infection involves the New York Yankees. Multiple members of the team s traveling party, including one player, tested positive for COVID-19 though all had received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The question is: Is this a new variant? Nielsen said. Importantly, all but one of those nine people on the Yankees organization had no symptoms.
Nielsen continues to encourage residents to get vaccinated even as infection rates lower. Emerging variants of the virus, she says, are a threat.
Indian COVID-19 Variant May Be ‘50 Percent More Transmissible’ Than UK Strain
A CCP virus variant first detected in India is likely to be 50 percent more transmissible than the COVID-19 strain that is currently dominant in the UK, British medical experts have warned.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), a panel of experts who advise the UK government, said it is “highly likely” that the Indian variant of concern, known as B.1.617.2, is more transmissible than the UK variant, which was first detected in Kent and is now dominant in the UK.
“It is a realistic possibility that it is as much as 50 percent more transmissible,” the experts claimed, according to minutes released on Friday from their meeting a day earlier.