DIRTY DOZEN At least TWELVE strains of coronavirus found in UK – including one unique to Britain, finds SAGE report: No indication strains are more potent

The Sun ^ | 05/05/2020 | Thomas Burrows

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AT LEAST 12 different strains of coronavirus were spreading through the UK in March - including one which has only ever been found in Britain, a SAGE report found.

Scientists analysed the genomes of the deadly virus in 260 infected patients across the country.

They discovered at least 12 strains of coronavirus, one of which has only ever been found in the UK - meaning it mutated on British soil.

But the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium admitted the "under-sampling in the UK and elsewhere means the number of independent introductions of Covid-19 is very likely substantially higher".

The scientists concluded most of the strains came from Italy and Spain, the worst-hit countries in the world at the time the research was carried out.

It found strains had also come from China, the US and Australia.

Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said today: "One of the things it looks like very clearly, is early in March the UK got many many different imports of virus from many different places – and those places were particularly from Europeans countries with outbreaks."

There is no indication any of strains are more potent or infectious than another.

Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia, told the Daily Mail: "There are a number of issues with these strains - are they likely to cause different severity of disease? Are they likely to be more infectious? And are they capable of invalidating vaccines?

"The answer to all three of these is we have no idea. There is no suggestion from this study - or any other that I have read - that show these strains are more virulent or infectious that one another.

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"But it is plausible that one strain could mutate to the point where people with antibodies to an older strain are no longer immune to it."

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The scientists discovered 12 strains of the killer bug, one of which has only ever been found in Britain suggesting it mutated on UK soil

[Vince Ferrer]

We have to stay shutdown until we get twelve vaccines.

[RayChuang88]

That’s why the HCQ/Z-max combination needs to be used more often to put a quick stop to the coronavirus affecting the person.

[henkster]

Vaccines are like ponies; just because you want one doesn’t mean you will get one.

[DuncanWaring]

Twelve vaccines?

More likely 12 Monkeys.

[A_perfect_lady]

If they are mutating that much, that fast, even a vaccine isn’t going to be very useful. And if they do indeed mutate to the point where one strain won’t protect you from the others, we may have to simply learn to live with coronavirus the way we do cancer: one of those ways you might die. Like cancer, only way faster.

[CodeJockey]

Too funny... Just saw another report stating a new CV19 strain is more deadly than previous one.

[EBH]

Well...the other thought is that with this rapid mutation it is possible the virus burns itself out. The virus is mutating because the human isn’t the optimum host for the virus. It is doing this without humans even doing more than prophylactic care in most cases. So the question would be why? And the only conclusion I can justify is because we’re the wrong type of host.

[Mouton]

“Just saw another report stating a new CV19 strain is more deadly than previous one.”

Yeah, they need to better coordinate their scare stories.

[dfwgator]

I think a better analogy would be living with Polio, before the vaccine.

[Mouton]

And the only conclusion I can justify is because we’re the wrong type of host.

Or another, it was designed that way.

[RealVirginia]

Well, isn’t this just like the flu?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So instead of mutating into Dos Equis or another Mexican beer it mutated into Guinness Stout.

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Scientists say they’ve identified mutated COVID-19 strain — and issue a dire warning about new contagion

[Cobra64]

Anything to perpetuate hysteria...”we’re all gonna die!”

[CharlesWayneCT]

Weird story, said it was already taking over in march.

Not more deadly, more contageous.

Viruses tend to become less deadly so they can spread more. More accurately, the deadly versions kill people and so dont spread as much, the ones with mild symtoms get caried around.

[Reily]

These types of viruses (rhino, corona, flu, etc) mutate quickly the goal (If it can be said that viruses have a goal.) is to keep replicating themselves to keep the “strain family” alive in a maximal way. So being immediately or near term lethal to the host is not in the best interest of the long term survivability of the strain. Making the host just sick or better yet asymptomatic increases the chances the strain continues. That’s the likely sweet spot it will go to. It’s not an absolute linear path there will upticks of lethality and it sucks if you catch that uptick but its eventually a dead end for the strain. I think this is why there is a very high number of asymptomatic cases and I bet that number will increase.

[MinorityRepublican]

SARS mutated itself out of existence back in ‘03. There’s a study in Arizona that COVID is mutating and becoming less deadly. It is related to the stain from Europe which infected most of USA.