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At the No 10 press conference on Monday Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, said the South African variant of coronavirus was unlikely to become dominant in the UK. In his Q&A on BBC News this morning, he deployed one of the vivid analogies for which he has become famous to explain why. He said:
If you are running a bath and you have got the hot water tap on and you add in a very small amount of cold water, so the cold tap is running as well but at really a very low volume, your bath water is basically going to remain hot.
It’s only if that cold tap was gushing much more than the hot tap, the cold water would take over.
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