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Why scientists worldwide are watching UK COVID infections

The country’s relaxation of measures such as masking — especially in England — is showing the limits of relying on vaccines alone.
  1. Luke Taylor
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The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has often foreshadowed what came later elsewhere. The highly contagious Alpha variant was first detected there, and the country then reported high caseloads of the more-contagious Delta strain before this variant dispersed around the rest of the world. The United Kingdom also saw a wave of infections that seems to have preceded a similar glut now sweeping Western Europe.

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Nature 599, 189-190 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03003-6

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