Originally Posted by
Turnleft080
Thanks for that MickG0105. Makes you wonder, the longer you lockdown the more time their is to generate a new variant.
You're welcome.
And yes and no on the latter. Each infected person is an incubator for a potential new variant. If you keep the number of infected down, you reduce the likelihood of a new, significantly more infectious variant emerging. Further, if you have measures in place to limit spread you can prevent a new variant from gaining a foothold. That's why the way out of this is likely to be multifaceted - at the very least a combination of vaccination and some infection control measures.