Medicine & TechnologyAn unpublished COVID-19 case recently showed a 90-year-old unvaccinated woman after contracting the virus this spring in Europe was found to have been infected with two variants at the same time.
The UofM collaborates with the WEL and Memphis and Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force to help slow the spread of the UK COVID-19 variant in UofM Athletics.
The announcement that the new COVID-19 variant spreading in Britain could be more fatal and more communicable. Fresh concerns have been stimulated as well about the strain that has swept several counties.
Preliminary evidence recently showed the new COVID-19 strain in the United Kingdom may be 30 percent more fatal compared to the original virus that has been affecting millions of people globally.
An early study shows that the COVID-19 vaccine of Pfizer works against a key mutation detected in variants of the virus in the United Kingdom and South Africa, which are spreading faster compared to the original strain.