‘No Evidence’ New Virus Strain More Transmissible, Pathogenic: Operation Warp Speed Official

Travelers walk in London, UK, on Dec. 20, 2020. Toby Melville/Reuters

There’s no evidence that the new strain of the CCP virus is more transmissible, an official with the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program said Monday.

“I think scientifically, to date, there is no hard evidence that this virus is actually more transmissible,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the program’s chief scientific adviser, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.