@article{Davies_N-2021_64391,
title = {Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England},
author = {Davies, N. and Abbott, S. and Barnard, R. and Jarvis, C. and Kucharski, A. and Munday, J. and Pearson, C. and Russell, T. and Tully, D. and Washburne, A. and Wenseleers, T. and Gimma, A. and Waites, W. and Wong, K. and van Zandvoort, K. and Silverman, J. and CMMID COVID-19 Working Group and COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium and Diaz-Ordaz, K. and Keogh, R. and Eggo, R. and Funk, S. and Jit, M. and Atkins, K. and Edmunds, W.},
month = {mar},
year = {2021},
abstract = {A severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant, VOC 202012/01 (lineage B.1.1.7), emerged in southeast England in September 2020 and is rapidly spreading toward fixation. Using a variety of statistical and dynamic modeling approaches, we estimate that this variant has a 43 to 90% (range of 95% credible intervals, 38 to 130%) higher reproduction number than preexisting variants. A fitted two-strain dynamic transmission model shows that VOC 202012/01 will lead to large resurgences of COVID-19 cases. Without stringent control measures, including limited closure of educational institutions and a greatly accelerated vaccine rollout, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths across England in the first 6 months of 2021 were projected to exceed those in 2020. VOC 202012/01 has spread globally and exhibits a similar transmission increase (59 to 74%) in Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States.},
volume = {372},
issue = {6538},
journal = {Science},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg3055},
}
