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‘Doomsday’ Covid variant detected in South Africa even worse than Delta strain
https://www.heraldsun.com.au ^ | Aug 31,2021

Posted on 08/30/2021 11:08:25 PM PDT by 11th_VA

A new “doomsday” Covid variant has been discovered, with health experts fearing it moves nearly “twice as fast” as the deadly Delta strain.

(Video at the link)

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...


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KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; doomsday; southafrica
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To: WMarshal

41 posted on 08/31/2021 12:11:32 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: MAGAthon

also worth noting, China has been playing along on MRNA vaccines, but it seems they have no intention of approving them for MAINLAND use. perhaps they will for their other territories, despite the deal China’s Fosun has with Pfizer/BionTech!!

this article fails to mention China’s reluctance to go along with MRNA vaccines for their own people:

28 Aug: Bloomberg: China Misses Target on Approval of BioNTech-Pfizer Shot, Raising Questions
Bloomberg News With assistance by John Liu, and Naomi Kresge
Regulators on China’s mainland haven’t signed off on the shot nearly nine months after it received its first regulatory clearance in the U.K. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. — which has an agreement with BioNTech to sell it in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan — has seen its shares fall about 23% below an all-time high hit in early August...

“I’ve seen people saying there’s 90% chance the vaccine will be approved on the mainland in August,” Seton Hall’s Huang said. “But there’s also no indication it will ever be approved.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/china-misses-target-on-biontech-pfizer-shot-raising-questions

17 July: Yahoo: from Fortune Mag: 1.4 billion doses later, China is realizing it may need mRNA COVID vaccines
by Grady McGregor
China is the only major economy in the world not to approve or distribute COVID-19 vaccines that use the mRNA technology proven to be one of the most effective tools in preventing the spread of COVID-19. But China’s mRNA stance may be changing...

The approval would also unlock Fosun’s capacity to produce 1 billion more BioNTech shots domestically per year, part of the deal Fosun and BioNTech struck in May to make a new joint venture company in China.
The anticipated approval is a long time coming...

China’s delayed approval of the BioNTech jab is likely due, in part, to the government publicly casting doubt on the usefulness of mRNA vaccines earlier this year and the promotion of its homegrown alternatives...

China’s resistance to mRNA technology became apparent earlier this year, when state media outlets attempted to sow doubt about mRNA jabs from companies like Pfizer as a means to promote China’s domestically produced shots...

Nicholas Thomas, a professor of health security at the City University of Hong Kong, says skepticism of Pfizer jabs has spread to the Chinese public, and “consistently negative views” toward mRNA vaccines have proliferated on China’s tightly controlled social media platforms...

Instead of mRNA, China’s leading vaccine makers, namely the state-owned Sinopharm and private firm Sinovac, rely on inactivated vaccine technology...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-4-billion-doses-later-003055601.html


42 posted on 08/31/2021 12:14:12 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: 11th_VA

43 posted on 08/31/2021 12:15:03 AM PDT by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: Dick Bachert
Wow - amazing photograph.

Is that Bat Lady giving Obama and his crew the Cook's tour?

After reading Fauci's slavish email correspondence with Hillary Clinton, I concluded that Fauci had the same kind of relationship with Bat Lady.

I had no idea they were photographed together inside the Wuhan Lab.

44 posted on 08/31/2021 12:27:10 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: 11th_VA

45 posted on 08/31/2021 12:39:04 AM PDT by nonsporting (And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed … Galatians 3:29)
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To: 11th_VA

More fear porn…..

Yawn…..


46 posted on 08/31/2021 12:57:55 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: 11th_VA

Not alarmist at all /s


47 posted on 08/31/2021 1:00:13 AM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban /s)
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To: golux

snicker….


48 posted on 08/31/2021 1:00:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: 11th_VA

I called it weeks ago before that the “delta” variant the deep state will come up with something that sounds terrifying to keep us masked forever. Doomsday’ fits the bill. After doomsday’, probably “civilization ender” will be the next name they come up with..


49 posted on 08/31/2021 1:01:44 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: 11th_VA

Australian paper. They’ve gone Covid Crazy Down Under.


50 posted on 08/31/2021 1:04:51 AM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: 11th_VA

It shoots through schools!


51 posted on 08/31/2021 1:05:45 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MAGAthon

This isn’t a doomsday - Delta4 is a doomsday. But by then, hopefully, science will have addressed the mutations in the NTD that are enabling immune escape by tying up human monoclonals, as already seen in Lambda:
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210820/SARS-CoV-2-lambda-variant-escapes-immune-response-via-spike-mutations.aspx

here’s all I’ve harvested on Pango C.1.2

C.1.2 (South Africa) Jan 2021 - While first detected in South Africa, C.1.2 has since been found in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland. The new variant has “mutated substantially” compared to C.1 and is more mutations away from the original virus detected in Wuhan than any other Variant of Concern (VOC) or Variant of Interest (VOI) detected so far worldwide.
the C.1.2 lineage has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, which is nearly twice as fast as the current global mutation rate of the other variants. The scientists stated that this short period of increased evolution was also seen with the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants, suggesting that a single event, followed by a spike in cases, drove faster mutation rates.
More than half of the C.1.2 sequences have 14 mutations, but additional mutations have been noticed in some of the sequences, suggesting that evolution within the lineage is ongoing, according to the study. More than half (about 52%) of the mutations in the spike region of the C.1.2 sequences have previously been seen in other VOCs and VOIs.
The mutations N440K and Y449H, which have been associated with escape from certain antibodies, have also been noticed in C.1.2 sequences. The scientists stressed that the combination of these mutations, as well as changes in other parts of the virus, likely help the virus evade antibodies and immune responses , including in patients who have already been infected with the Alpha or Beta variants.


52 posted on 08/31/2021 1:22:53 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: 11th_VA

It’s a little early for them to deploy the “Midterm Election” variant, isn’t it?


53 posted on 08/31/2021 1:28:08 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: 11th_VA

What a surprise. Not.


54 posted on 08/31/2021 1:36:57 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: All

When do we get to the “Obliteration of the Universe” variant???


55 posted on 08/31/2021 1:37:07 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: 11th_VA

“Doomsday variant” = Antibody Dependent Enhancement but blamed on the unvaxxed.


56 posted on 08/31/2021 1:46:34 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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To: skr

The ‘kiss your ass goodbye’ variant.


57 posted on 08/31/2021 1:48:08 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: 11th_VA
An Australian site. Figures. This is nothing but another play by Australia's chapter of the Leftist/Globalist Filth Cabal™ to push their totalitarian policies to the next level and cement control over the people there.

The world's most deadly virus is the Filth Cabal™ itself. It must be eradicated, by any and all means, or mankind is doomed to slavery, ruin and death.

58 posted on 08/31/2021 1:48:23 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: Darksheare
Released right on time.

Yes. Gotta get Afghanistan off the front pages and the telescreens stat.

59 posted on 08/31/2021 1:55:52 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Der Impfstoff macht frei.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Worst part is, I wish it was only a joke.


60 posted on 08/31/2021 1:59:29 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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