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Re:Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' by jsnell on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:26PM (#25604830)
The increase in viral load is a bit more substantial than 10%... The study [0] shows a 10-100x increase for the median case.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248834v...

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Re:Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' by sbinthree on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:55PM (#25605075)
Yeah you're right, I'm a week out of date. That is disturbing. Perhaps that means it is actually higher viral load but lower impact per amount of virus?
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