XXB 1.5 - Dangerous?

There is so much of it around now that you really can't avoid it apart from becoming a hermit. It's no more dangerous in as much as if you catch it, you're probably not going to get severely ill. There's no evidence that it's evading the ability of vaccines to protect against very severe disease. But that's not to say you might feel quite poorly if you do catch it. I think it's quite likely to give rise to a kind of winter early spring peak of infections in the UK across Europe. For example, it's already 40% of isolates in the US.