[maxerickson]

Not really. Thousands of variations have ben sequenced, the notable thing here is the (potentially) faster spread.

[bigbizisverywyz]

Whilst the consensus seems to be that this variant is spreading faster than other variants - is there any information on exactly how it does so?

[MacsHeadroom]

Not really. But this variant does have novel mutations in sections coding for spike proteins. Whether and how those are functional improvements for the virus are tbd.

See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423118v1

[sroussey]

Increase in the number of spikes per virus.

[Bombthecat]

Yeah, i read somewhere 70%.