I prefer to here an interview rather than some reporters version of it aimed at selling newspaper or getting clicks on web sites as those will interpret to suite.
There is nothing wrong with that sentence but the virologist they interviewed on the BBC is also likely to be aware of the effects it's having on the few who have caught it here. Virus do have minor changes but generally they usually have the same effect on people. Covid is a new virus. Rather different.
Anyway time will tell. The links I posted suggest it's not that infective between people under normal circumstances especially if it can take 21 days to show symptoms. Main problem with the links is a rather small group of people. So far we haven't heard what are the common factors about people with it here.
for most of us anyway. The current version is still killing people and causing them to finish up on mechanical ventilation. There is a high degree of antibodies in the population. 2 types, jab and natural. Treatments have improved. One brand of jab proved to be less effective against the current variant. Antibody retention not so good as well. If it had been the current variation at day one know one has a clue what it would do. Things have changed too much. It's been noticed that death rates where higher when the NHS was treating maximum numbers.
