Breaking News UK Evidence Suggests New CCP Virus Variant Associated With Higher Death Rate
From The Epoch Times January 22, 2021 | Jack Phillips
Natalie’s Commentary: With the new COVID-19 B.1.1.7 strain, it clearly appears that China’s Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping has attacked the National Security of every country worldwide. This is the most egregious National Security attack since World War II. We can’t just lay helpless from day to day letting this deadly virus consume and take away lives systematically worldwide. If we do anything at all, it would behoove us to take out the two P4 Wuhan Virology labs ASAP.
Most Americans are very aware of the truth. Joe Biden did not win this Presidential election but stole it from the American people. He, himself, admitted and announced it to the American public. I for one would like to continue to prove this egregious treasonous act to bring back President Trump to his rightful place.
I know President Trump would save not only America but the world from this National Security attack by the CCP. The Department of Defense, the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Pentagon at that point have to convene and seriously consider to take the power of authority away from Biden and the Democrats in Congress to strategically arrange for a systematically strategic plan before it’s too late. Soon this new strain of the virus will spread to those who are trained to protect this country. ~ Natalie
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is evidence that the new, reportedly more contagious COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 discovered late last year could be associated with a higher mortality rate.
“We’ve been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant—the variant that was first discovered in London and the southeast [in England]—may be associated with a higher degree of mortality,” he said in a news conference on Friday. The variant, he said, could be up to 30 percent more deadly than the original CCP virus, otherwise known as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The new CCP virus strain, known as B.1.1.7, is believed to be more contagious and has been found in at least 10 U.S. states so far, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. The variant of the virus was first found in the UK in September 2020 before scientists sounded the alarm about it being more infectious.
With the original COVID-19, about out of 1,000 people aged 60 or older, 10 would be expected to die. But with the new B.1.1.7 variant, 13 or 14 people aged 60 or older out of 1,000 would be expected to die, Johnson said.
However, Johnson and UK health officials stressed there are some uncertainties around those figures.
Evidence suggests that vaccines manufactured from Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca-Oxford University, which are being used in the UK, can be used against the new variant, according to the prime minister.
“It’s largely the impact of this new variant that means the [National Health Service] is under such intense pressure,” Johnson said Friday.
Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific advisor, said the data on the B.1.1.7 variant’s mortality rate is “not yet strong.”
He added: “I want to stress that there’s a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.”
Vallance remarked that the UK variant is transmitting between 30 percent and 70 percent more easily than the original CCP virus.
However, the variants that have emerged in Brazil and South Africa appear to be of more concern, he said.
“They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines,” Vallance noted in the news conference. “They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.”
Separately, more and more Chinese cities are being placed under lockdown in a bid to keep the virus from spreading. On Jan. 20, several northeastern Jilin Province went under lockdown, as authorities in two villages in Heilongjiang Province culled all livestock—fearing that animals could also spread the virus.
A day later, the financial hub of Shanghai has seen a new outbreak of the virus. Lockdowns were initiated in some areas.