{"id":74835,"date":"2020-12-30T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74835"},"modified":"2020-12-31T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T07:01:13","slug":"mutated-virus-does-not-cause-more-fatalities-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mutated-virus-does-not-cause-more-fatalities-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutated virus does not cause more fatalities: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/new-coronavirus-variant-does-not-increase-reinfection-risk-disease-severity-deaths\/article33445811.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>According to a study by Public Health England, the new mutated variant of the novel coronavirus does not appear to cause more severe illness than other variants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the study, researchers compared 1,769 people infected with the new variant with the same number of people who had different Covid variant. The two groups were matched 1:1 on the basis of age, sex, area of residence and time of testing.<\/li>\n<li>The study found that 12 of 1,340 (0.89%) people infected with the new variant died within 28 days compared with 10 of 1,360 (0.73%) people infected with virus not belonging to the new variant. Hence, the study has concluded that the difference in case fatality between the two groups is not significant.<\/li>\n<li>However, the secondary attack rate or the proportion of contacts of confirmed cases that develop disease themselves was higher in people infected with the new variant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is a mutation?\u00a0<\/strong>A mutation means an alteration in genetic material. In an RNA virus such as SARS-CoV-2, proteins are made of a sequence of amino acids. Such a virus contains some 30,000 \u2018base pairs\u2019 which are like bricks placed next to each other to form a structure. An alteration in this base can be a mutation, effectively changing the shape and behaviour of the virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For Further Read on New Mutant Virus:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mutated-covid-19-strain-of-uk-spreads-faster\/\"><strong>https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mutated-covid-19-strain-of-uk-spreads-faster\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu News:\u00a0According to a study by Public Health England, the new mutated variant of the novel coronavirus does not appear to cause more severe illness than other variants. Facts: About the Study: Under the study, researchers compared 1,769 people infected with the new variant with the same number of people who had different&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mutated-virus-does-not-cause-more-fatalities-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mutated virus does not cause more fatalities: report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1289,1456],"class_list":["post-74835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-soc_0","tag-soc_01","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700781975,"cached_date":1704802091},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}