Scientists are warning that Brazil's uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak could threaten the global fight to end the pandemic. The more infectious, vaccine-dulling P1 variant that emerged there has already become dominant in the majority of the country's states, and there's no sign of it slowing down. 'This information is an atomic bomb' Dr Roberto Kraenkel, a biological mathematician with the Covid-19 Brazil Observatory, told the Washington Post. Of U.S. cases of the P1 variant, she said: 'They are apparently low, but make no mistake, this variant is more transmissible,' and is likely more widespread than testing for it has captured. The virus is evolving fast and...if it continues to evolve in other countries, eventually it can be here.

Source: Daily Mail March 10, 2021 01:18 UTC