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.
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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."
What in the hell does that even mean?!!!
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It means, in direct translation, “stay locked up and locked down until we finish destroying the food chain.”
Thank you for the clarification, for a minute there was starting to become”disheartened”!
Thank you for the clarification, for a minute there was starting to become”disheartened”!
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It does make dying a little bit less stressful when you know how they intend to kill us.
Is this the predictable 'one two punch' we expected from the psychopaths? It was the Bin Laden way - hit 'em, then kick 'em when their down... off the first responders running to help the victims. Guess China can't even come up with original terrorism.
These people are so lame they think burning down a beautiful building is the same a having the skills to build one. A two year old can burn down a building... the only thing the Chinese can create is misery, pollution, filth and fear.
This is very odd information. Watch out, new strain, but no information about where it is showing up? Everywhere? One country, or 100?
Thanks for nothing, lady.
This is the same lab that had regular visits by CCP intelligence and military, correct?
Maybe covid-19 will mutate into a vampire covid-19 and destroy itself.
New, worse, strain? Fauci is orgasmic.
Oh F**k! are you kidding me.
We need a revolution
No, the first wave wasn’t a hoax. It was a warning.
The second wave has already been released.
There’s a third wave coming in the fall. I was just thinking about this strategically today while walking the dog.
If this is a bioweapon, which I believe it is, there may be certain strategic points at which a variant is released. The first wave softens up the target, weak are eliminated. A bunch of asymptomatic people are left, but another variant gets released triggering the 33% of those left to become ill with ‘new symptoms.’ And then the final release triggering another event wiping out the next 33%.
Almost every modern pandemic/epidemic has come out of China. If China has all these dangerous viruses...how are they over populated. One would logically conclude those virus and habits would naturally cull the population. It doesn’t.
We are heading into the second phase of a bio-warfare attack. It’s time that the Government come clean about what is going on that we know about. This is a 3 prong attack and China’s attempt to bring western civilization down. It is far from a hoax and Trump would be wise to haul in the treasonous democrats.
It’s time for the s*it to hit the fan. Cities all around me are canceling summer events...even the 4th of July right on through until Labor Day. Canceling events while we’re trying to open up the state. There’s something beyond party politics at play here and it isn’t good.
“...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.”
By the same token efforts in the to fight for a cure for cancer has been ongoing for how long now? They must be like invention of lightbulb, or perhaps a successful polio vaccine. One by one, through the process of elimination. I can’t imagine the frustration having a job which keeps coming up against brickwall viruses. They can be cracked but the process can be painfully slow, and I’m probably positive and saying that most scientists in these Laboratories understand that the battle is often thwarted.
Would be nothing to fret over if we took off the Damn masks and interacted with each other to build immunity !!!!
Their plan sucks
Keep people apart and in lockdown, so they can’t fight the next strain!!!
FaucU just wants another parent/vaccine $$$$$$$
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Interesting and reminiscent of fireworks with subsequent ignitions after the first stage.
“No, the first wave wasn’t a hoax. It was a warning.
The second wave has already been released.
There’s a third wave coming in the fall. I was just thinking about this strategically today while walking the dog.”
So IOW: You really have no clue what you are talking about, made up a story while walking your dog, and instead of realizing that you are slowing going nuts by having nothing to do, you come to FR to post this in hopes that other shut-ins with their own equally crazy conspiracy theories will take you seriously?
Go see a shrink, dude.
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