I think you might be right, I seem to remember something about that back early last year and I had a feeling something about it was posted in this ever growing thread but I searched and didn't find a clue...I also searched using Duckduckgo but came up empty...The article implied those two variants could merge or mutate together into something worse than what we have currently to deal with, that's a huge concern...Also some British experts say it may be 2024 before we get a handle on this pandemic and have some normalcy again, could they be referring to these mutations continuing to hamper our efforts prolonging the pandemic?...If people would really make effort and do what's required to stop the spread of this virus then we wouldn't have all these mutations, the virus needs to duplicate in order to change, stop the spread and we at least narrow the chances of more deadly mutations or drug resistant mutations...There's a vast amount of covid deniers and antimask or antivaxx people in the world also hampering the efforts...
I think this story is about the person I am talking about:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11097...-20-all-have-coronavirus-along-with-neighbor/
He apparently went to hospital for an extended period. I seem to recall some of the more sensationalist stories suggesting that he had two strains simultaneously.
I think the appearance of new variants is what is going to cause the pandemic to persist. It wasn't much of a problem for us until December. The prevalence of the existing strain reached a very low level due to restrictions in force, and the situation would likely have been manageable, and vaccination would likely have done for the lingering cases. But the emergence of the Kent variant caused the prevalence of the virus, and the resulting deaths, to skyrocket.
In the UK, there is something called the ZOE app, which is a symptom tracker that people can voluntarily download. It is a collaboration between a university and a private company to gather data on coronavirus in this country. People submit their daily symptoms, if any, and it also collects anonymised data about them. One of the things that has come out of that is that apparently only 11% of people comply with the full isolation period after coming into close contact with a person infected with Covid. There is also a low level of compliance when people are told that they actually have Covid.
The lockdown breakers, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and Covid sceptics are actually working counter to their own interests, and the interests of everyone else who wants this thing to end. Their behaviour will prolong the pandemic, and prolong the social restrictions required to manage it. All the while they will be claiming that they want them to end.