We got the new UK variant here in Boston on Friday according to the news... via Logan Airport and a woman who flew from the UK to the US after testing negative, and was found positive when she got here in MA to catch her connecting flight to another state.
So Plague Plane and contact tracing system that is pretty useless since passengers, flight crew and all the people she came into contact at Logan airport etc. likely exposed to the more easily spread version.
And one of the things that is not in the news in the USA (to avoid panic? Or create conspiracy cover up claims later?) is that the new version hit Brazil recently and people that had already had the normal strain ARE getting infected by the new one.
And a report in one of the UK papers that 1 out of 8 people that are hospitalized to date with the normal version of the disease are dying within 6 months despite having been declared 'recovered'. Permanent Heart damage seems prevalent as the cause.
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So Plague Plane and contact tracing system that is pretty useless since passengers, flight crew and all the people she came into contact at Logan airport etc. likely exposed to the more easily spread version.
And one of the things that is not in the news in the USA (to avoid panic? Or create conspiracy cover up claims later?) is that the new version hit Brazil recently and people that had already had the normal strain ARE getting infected by the new one.
And a report in one of the UK papers that 1 out of 8 people that are hospitalized to date with the normal version of the disease are dying within 6 months despite having been declared 'recovered'. Permanent Heart damage seems prevalent as the cause.