Even Nervtag itself, in its paper that so unnerved the Government at the weekend, admitted it had only ‘moderate confidence’ the new strain – VUI-202012/01 – demonstrates ‘a substantial increase in transmissibility’. DAVID LIVERMORE: The Government justifies this draconian approach by warning that a dangerous new strain of coronavirus is ‘out of control’, to use the alarming phraseology of Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Pictured Matt HancockOne is a lower infectious dose, where the victim needs to inhale fewer virus particles to become infected. Amid such a devastating backdrop, our Government must not ignore the consequences of failing to look at the hard data on the new variant’s spread in households and hospitals. Professor David Livermore is a Professor in Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia and member of Time4Recovery

Source: Daily Mail December 21, 2020 22:15 UTC