There’s no evidence that the new strain of the CCP virus is more transmissible, an official with the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program said Monday. “I think scientifically, to date, there is no hard evidence that this virus is actually more transmissible,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the program’s chief scientific adviser, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington. “I think the key point is that there is no evidence now—it’s clear, because there is a large number of people infected— there’s no evidence that this virus is more pathogenic, creates more problem[s], more morbidity or mortality than the previous virus,” he added later. British officials recently disclosed the discovery of a new variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Dec. 19 that the new variant of the virus could be 70 percent more transmissible than the …