UK Policy Doesn’T Just Affect Us, It Affects Everybody’ Christina Pagel Quoted By Cnbc

Professor Christina Pagel joined a coalition of international scientists and medical professionals at an emergency summit to protest director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit of London’s UCL, warned that there was potential for a new variant of Covid to emerge this summer.“Any mutation that can infect vaccinated people better has a big selection advantage and can spread. And because of our position as a global travel hub, any variant that becomes dominant in the U.K. will likely spread to the rest of the world — we saw it with alpha, and I’m absolutely sure that we contributed to the rise of delta through Europe and North America.” Speaking on Friday’s panel, Christina Pagel, director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit of London’s UCL, warned that there was potential for a new variant of Covid to emerge this summer.

“The U.K. policy doesn’t just affect us, it affects everybody — everybody has a stake in what we do,” she added. Read the full article here