According to preliminary studies, the English variant is half more contagious and the amount of virus in infected people is also higher. The only bright spot: at first glance, children do not seem conspicuously more susceptible to the new variant.
A contact tracing study conducted by the British NHS health service found that people who had the new variant among members lit 15.1 percent of their contacts. In older variants of the virus this was only 9.8 percent. “A 50 percent increase in infectivity may not seem like much, but it is because of the exponential growth,” said epidemiologist and biostatistician Zoë Hyde of The University of Western Australia, who summarized the initial research results.
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