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"Professor Peter Horby, who chairs the Government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), tells BBC Breakfast that after a week of looking at the data he and his colleagues came to the conclusion that it was a "realistic possibility".
"There are a number of streams of data that are coming in that suggest there might be a small increase in risk of death," he says.
"If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up."
However, Professor Horby said "for most people the risk is very, very small".
He added: "The encouraging news is that the UK variant is not affecting how the treatments work and it's not affecting how the vaccines work, so we believe the vaccines and the treatment are just as good against this virus as they've always been.""
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