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How worried should you be about Lambda? 7 Critical Facts About the Variant
LIKE A HORROR MOVIE VILLAIN WHO JUST WON’T DIE, the novel coronavirus keeps mutating in new and dangerous ways.
In the United States, the more transmissible and infectious Delta has been ravaging unvaccinated communities and causing a few breakthrough infections in the vaccinated. Now, there’s another variant raising disturbing questions that scientists are scrambling to answer: the Lambda variant.
Delta is still the dominant variant in the United States, but Lambda hit South America hard, and infections of the variant are now showing up throughout the U.S. The rapid spread of these variants raises crucial questions about how affected our lives will be by the…
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Covid’s Lambda Variant: Worth Watching, but No Cause for Alarm
Spreading fast in South America, the variant is still a mystery. No one knows whether it is more contagious than other variants or if it affects vaccines.
The Lambda Covid-19 variant is now spreading beyond Latin America
Initially known as the “Andean variant” after being detected in Peru in December 2020, the C.37 variant drew little notice beyond Latin America as the Alpha variant, first seen in Kent, England around the same time, preoccupied the world.
The Lambda variant: is it more infectious, and can it escape vaccines? A virologist explains
On June 14 2021, WHO declared lambda a “global variant of interest”. Public Health England followed suit on June 23, designating it a “variant under investigation” because of its “international expansion and several notable mutations”.
The Lambda Variant: What You Should Know And Why Experts Say Not To Panic
While there hasn't been clear head-to-head data, the evidence so far does not suggest the lambda variant has any great advantage over the delta variant,
How worried should you be about Lambda? 7 Critical Facts About the Variant
Delta is still the dominant variant in the United States, but Lambda hit South America hard, and infections of the variant are now showing up throughout the U.S. The rapid spread of these variants raises crucial questions about how affected our lives will be by the coronavirus in the months and years to come.
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