Authors
Nicholas G Davies, Sam Abbott, Rosanna C Barnard, Christopher I Jarvis, Adam J Kucharski, James D Munday, Carl AB Pearson, Timothy W Russell, Damien C Tully, Alex D Washburne, Tom Wenseleers, Amy Gimma, William Waites, Kerry LM Wong, Kevin van Zandvoort, Justin D Silverman, CMMID COVID, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, Ruth Keogh, Rosalind M Eggo, Sebastian Funk, Mark Jit, Katherine E Atkins, W John Edmunds
Publication date
2021/3/3
Journal
Science
Volume
372
Issue
6538
Pages
eabg3055
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
INTRODUCTION
Several novel variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, emerged in late 2020. One of these, Variant of Concern (VOC) 202012/01 (lineage B.1.1.7), was first detected in southeast England in September 2020 and spread to become the dominant lineage in the United Kingdom in just a few months. B.1.1.7 has since spread to at least 114 countries worldwide.
RATIONALE
The rapid spread of VOC 202012/01 suggests that it transmits more efficiently from person to person than preexisting variants of SARS-CoV-2. This could lead to global surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, so there is an urgent need to estimate how much more quickly VOC 202012/01 spreads, whether it is associated with greater or lesser severity of disease, and what control measures might be effective in mitigating its impact. We used social contact …
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