Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant

[GoodTaste]

Is "B.1.351" pronounced as "B point one point three five one"?

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Efficacy of the ChAdOx1 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant
BACKGROUND
Assessment of the safety and efficacy of vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in different populations is essential, as is investigation of the efficacy of the vaccines against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, including the B.1.351 (501Y.V2) variant first identified in South Africa.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes.

(not a virologist)

 

[Tdol]

I'd skip the first point too. (Not a scientist, much less a virologist)

 

[Skrej]

I haven't been paying close attention to the actual scientific designations, but the times I've heard the numbers instead of a geographical name (UK, South African, Wuhan, etc.), I don't recall news reports including the decimal points. I'm pretty sure they've just been using the alphanumeric combination sans decimals for brevity's sake, at least in US news coverage.

 

[GoesStation]

I don't know how people in the field read it, but my inclination is the same: I'd say bee one three fifty-one.

 

[Rover_KE]

Rats! People have been stopping me in the street to ask me about this (at a safe distance, of course) and I've been giving them the wrong answer. :-(

 

[Tdol]

I don't know how people in the field read it, but my inclination is the same: I'd say bee one three fifty-one.

Any scientist would get the meaning and non-scientists would too if they followed the news.

 

[Skrej]

Unless there really are B.1.351, B.13.51, and B.135.1 variants to distinguish between, the decimals seem irrelevant anyway, at least from a pronunciation standpoint.

 

[GoesStation]

Unless there really are B.1.351, B.13.51, and B.135.1 variants to distinguish between, the decimals seem irrelevant anyway, at least from a pronunciation standpoint.

I'd read those as bee one three-fifty-one, bee thirteen fifty-one and bee one-thirty-five one, respectively.

 

[GoesStation]

Unless there really are B.1.351, B.13.51, and B.135.1 variants to distinguish between, the decimals seem irrelevant anyway, at least from a pronunciation standpoint.

I'd read those as bee one three-fifty-one, bee thirteen fifty-one and bee one-thirty-five one, respectively.

 

[Tdol]

Unless there really are B.1.351, B.13.51, and B.135.1 variants to distinguish between, the decimals seem irrelevant anyway, at least from a pronunciation standpoint.

And who other than a particularly pedantic virologist would need to say b-point-one when they're all b-point-one?

 

[jutfrank]

The beginning of this video is revealing.