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Does the New COVID-19 Variant Represent a Turning Point?
26 Nov 2021
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CATEGORIES: AER Premium AER Personal Global Coronavirus
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Ignacio De la Torre
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Leopoldo Torralba
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Pedro Larrasquitu
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an ever-evolving phenomenon since it broke out more than one year ago. As such, the variables that affect its evolution must be continuously monitored. The emergence of a new variant in South Africa, named B.1.1.529, has fuelled market risks for its potential disrupting effect. In this brief note, we examine, based on the data available, the foreseeable impact of this new variant against the current backdrop of public health normalization. We try to answer the following questions:
dot Could it be more transmissible than Delta?
dot How might currently available vaccines respond to the new variant?
dot Could it be a turning point in the evolution of severe cases that end up in hospitalization or death?
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