Posted on 05/05/2020 10:04:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scientists say they have discovered what they believe is a mutated strain of COVID-19 — and are now warning that this new strain could be way more contagious than plain old coronavirus.
According to a Tuesday report in the Los Angeles Times, researchers say that a new "mutant" strain of coronavirus has emerged.
The study, led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, reveals that the new strain is more contagious than versions that spread in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to being more contagious, the new strain could reportedly make people more vulnerable to a second infection after a "first bout with the disease."
The study was published on Thursday in BioRxiv and has yet to be peer-reviewed, but researchers said they felt an "urgent need for an early warning" to advise people of the potential danger of the new strain.
The outlet reported, "Wherever the new strain appeared, it quickly infected far more people than the earlier strains that came out of Wuhan, China, and within weeks, it was the only strain that was more prevalent in some nations. ... The new strain's dominance over its predecessors demonstrates that it is more infectious."
"The report was based on a computational analysis of more than 6,000 coronavirus sequences from around the world, collected by the Global Initiative for Sharing All Influenza Data," the Times added. "Time and time again, the analysis found the new version was transitioning to become dominant."
At the time of this writing, researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimate at least 3,606,038 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed around the world, with at least 252,151 deaths because of the virus.
WHAT ELSE?
Study leader Bette Korber — who is a computational biologist — addressed the study on her Facebook page, the outlet reported.
“The story is worrying, as we see a mutated form of the virus very rapidly emerging, and over the month of March becoming the dominant pandemic form," Korber wrote. “When viruses with this mutation enter a population, they rapidly begin to take over the local epidemic, thus they are more transmissible."
She also pointed out that she is very concerned over the study's results.
“This is hard news," she continued, “but please don't only be disheartened by it. Our team at LANL was able to document this mutation and its impact on transmission only because of a massive global effort of clinical people and experimental groups, who make new sequences of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) in their local communities available as quickly as they possibly can."
Korber said that it is of utmost importance to remain aware and with a fluid, working knowledge of the disease and its metamorphosis.
"We cannot afford to be blindsided as we move vaccines and antibodies into clinical testing," Korber insisted. “Please be encouraged by knowing the global scientific community is on this, and we are cooperating with each other in ways I have never seen … in my 30 years as a scientist."
Keep the pantry stocked and the armory at ready. They are not through trying to destroy us yet.
My one hope is that PDJT has learned something from this first hoax
“The Answer is More Socialism. (always)“
You forgot the taxes, they always want more taxes to fund “the solution” or to find “the answers” because - reasons.
Local supermarket chain was phasing out, banning, single use plastic bags in favor of reusable bags.
Now they use only single use bags, and reusable bags have been banned.
The mindset is consistent - they love to ban things and activities.
Wow, I think studying Russian was easier than trying to read that letter. And I was TERRIBLE at Russian.
This one will be better funded
Oh, so the COVID-19 virus - which was going to wipe out humanity, cause the seas to rise, even kill all the wildflowers - is now just a ‘plain old coronavirus’??? When this is over by whatever means, there won’t be enough rope and lampposts...........
I wonder if this could explain the difference between the West-Coast (directly from China) and East-Coast (from Iran and Europe) strains
( explaining the HIV inserts made into this bioengineered pathogen)
And yet there are those on this site that claim that is a total lie.
Watched a news piece on the origins within China on this thing, and the experts that reported had on explained that it was virtually impossible for the AIDs part of that virus to enjoin with that Coro virus in nature.
BTW, that lab is funded and part of the Chinese military.
[[I guess I’ll have to find an even safer space than my closet to hole up in]]
Nah- just line your closet with copper- copper is supposed to kill viruses-
Some gal who, according to various online bios, has been working on an HIV vaccine for 30 years with little to show for her efforts, posts some scary assertions on her facebook page.
Sounds legit... /s /s /s
It was in Russian??? No wonder I found it so difficult. In the future I will only get my Coronavirus info from English teachers.
Well, certainly there are more than 2 strains, because viruses mutate easily and naturally.
Most of those mutations will just die out though, since they can’t compete more effectively than the original strain. The article says this one particular mutation is actually out-competing the parent strain, which means it will probably stick around.
New mutation indicates that coronavirus might be weakening, study says
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/new-mutation-indicates-that-coronavirus-might-be-weakening-study/
By Amanda Woods
May 5, 2020 | 8:37am
there are hundreds of cold viruses of varying degrees, and hundreds of flu virus strains of various strengths,
and we have not shut the planet down for them
these same scientist acknowledge they don’t even know how nmany other diseases and strains are out there that we do not know, yet.
and we haven’t shut the planet down for that either.
we do not even know all the bacteria that live in the human mouth, they estimate we know 20% or less of what’s in our mouths
and we have not stopped kissing each other or shut the planet down for that.
it’s ridiculous that this one incredibly overhyped and hystericalized thing is the thing we shut the planet down for.
Be afraid, be afraid!!!! /.sarc
Is the contagiousness of a virus it’s worse aspect?
No. What is more important is only whether or not the virus is less easily taken care of by the combination of the human immune system and human medicines, without becoming fatal.
The very best thing a virus can do to survive is to not make it’s host too ill, so its host won’t kill it or it won’t die in a dead host.
The “Spanish Flu” is known today as Influenza A among the seasonal flu bugs. It killed 675,000 Americans between 1918 and 1919. It survives today, and it is no longer as deadly to humans as it once was.
Just nail your closet shut...from the inside.
““This is hard news,” she continued, “but please don’t only be disheartened by it.”
What in the hell does that even mean?!!!
Thanks.
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