Britain’s vaccine roll-out races the covid-19 virus
The new, more transmissible variant makes the stakes perilously high
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE a new variant of covid-19 first passed from one person to another in Kent, in the south-east of England. When it happened, in late September, there were just 79 patients in hospital with the virus in the nine counties that make up the region. Three months later admissions are running higher than during the spring peak. “We haven’t run out of oxygen or dexamethasone or ventilators,” says a local doctor. But medical staff are dangerously thin on the ground: “We are very close to running out of humans.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Racing the virus”
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