Lennart Svensson, professor i virologi vid Linköpings universitet, anser att larmen om muterade coronavirus är förhastade givet att det ännu inte finns några vetenskapliga belägg för att mutationen har förändrade egenskaper.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/professorn-gar-emot-larmet-ser-det-inte/
I de länder som just nu har en stor smitt spridning av de muterade varianterna så är man övertygade om deras smittsamhet.
Jeremy Farrar, medlem av Boris Johnsons expert grupp säger i en intervju Der Spiegel:
These mutants are significantly more contagious and have become
the dominant virus variants in these countries in just a few weeks.
I think it is inevitable that these new variants will spread and soon become dominant around the world. This will make it much more difficult to control the pandemic -- and it could get worse if the virus continues to change. So, we are now in a dramatic race against a changing virus that is under an enormous immune pressure.
Två saker brådskar enligt Jeremy Farrar:
1) Firstly, we have to take really tough urgent measures to slow down the spread of Sars-CoV-2 and its new variants.
2) We have to vaccinate large parts of the global population as quickly as possible in the first half of 2021 -- we have to do it before the summer.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/jeremy-farrar-on-the-coronavirus-we-are-in-a-dramatic-race-against-a-changing-virus-a-4afdbc24-b5a1- 499d-a0d1-ae95415844ed
Vem som får rätt visar sig om några veckor, men om vi inte gör kraftfulla åtgärder nu så blir våren ännu jobbigare om det blir som Jeremy Farrar säger.