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The whole world was rocked by the new kind of virus from England. Speaking about the new virus it has mutated and what scientists call the B.1.1.7 virus, Dr. Müge Çevik said that the 70 percent contagious claim was found through modeling and that it was an expected spread.
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While the vaccines, which began to be applied to combat the coronavirus pandemic, were described as the light at the end of the tunnel, the mutation detected in England and that was beginning to spread to neighboring countries was bringing the world to the top. The Turkish scientist working in Scotland, Dr. Müge Çevik explained that the infectiousness rate announced by the British authorities is based on models, not laboratory experiments.
The American newspaper New York Times published a full report on the subject. In the news, it was recalled that scientists observed thousands of minor changes in genetic material during the emergence and spread of the coronavirus to the world.
Contagion problem for now
No data is available that the mutated virus is more deadly or could render vaccines ineffective. However, it was determined that this virus, which appeared in September in the United Kingdom, caused 28 percent of Covid-19 cases in the capital London in November. In the week of December 9, this rate increased to 62 percent.
Patrick Vallance, the UK government health consultant, made an assessment based on these data and stated that this new type of coronavirus outperforms other types in terms of transmission and that this creates a transmission problem for now.
It was expected but …
The New York Times reported that some variants have become more widespread by coincidence, not because the changes strengthen the virus. But as the pathogen (pathogenic microbe) becomes more difficult to survive, due to vaccination or increased immunity in the community, there will be mutations that will allow the virus to spread more easily or make detection by the system more difficult. immunological.
Evolutionary biologist Dr. Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. “Of course these mutations are going to spread, and definitely the scientific community, we have to track down these mutations and identify which ones have an effect,” said Jesse Bloom.
But many experts are also wary of this mutation. They claim that it takes years for a virus to mutate to a level that can render existing vaccines ineffective. Dr. “No one should worry that all of a sudden there is a single catastrophic mutation that inactivates all immunities and antibodies,” said Bloom.
