Astrazeneca less effective against mild illness in SA variant

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55967767

NB this was a sample of 2000, not yet peer reviewed.

I'm beginning to wish they wouldn't report incomplete findings so publicly. All the commentary suggests it's too early to say if this is a big problem or not - so why tell us?!

@TheChineseChicken

There have been 108,000,000 reported cases of covid worldwide. On that basis I think we know enough about it to know that it isn't a threat to the majority (if we're thinking in terms of severe disease / death). I'm not minimising how dangerous it is to some people but really this comment is a bit daft, sorry.

That was in response to this post from @doireallyneedaname

The flu isn’t really a threat to the majority, I know lots say the same about covid but we don’t know enough about it to say that with confidence yet.