Posted on 12/01/2020 4:44:32 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
A large new study, led by a team of geneticists from University College London and published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, has investigated over 10,000 mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and concluded there currently does not appear to be any variant that is more infectious or transmissible.
Those closely following COVID-19 news cycles are probably familiar with the near-constant parade of headlines that have been published since the beginning of the year proclaiming the virus has mutated and we now have strains that are more infectious, or more deadly. However, as vaccine charity GAVI explains, viruses are mutating all the time, and the vast majority of mutations mean absolutely nothing in regards to how deadly or infectious a virus may be...
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Virus mutations are the same.
World’s worst pandemic. Two dozen more random friends of mine this week have the death virus. How do they know? They were “tested” for the New Spanish Flu. They showed no symptoms.
"The oldest stories ever told are written in the stars. Stories of time before man and gods, when Titans ruled the earth. The Titans were powerful but their reign was ended by their own sons: Zeus, Poseiden, and Hades. Zeus convinced his brother Hades to create a beast so strong it could defeat their parents. And from his own flesh Hades gave birth to an unspeakable horror... the KRAKEN."
15 million dead mink in Denmark say otherwise...
When they say “no evidence” I become very suspicious.
Lockdown mutations have grown and gotten worse.
“However, as vaccine charity GAVI explains, viruses are mutating all the time”
Yup, kind of like the climate, which has ALWAYS and will ALWAYS be changing!
As to virus mutations, my understanding is that they are usually in the direction of becoming more contagious but less lethal.
Fauci, Gates, and his chinese lab buddies haven’t launched out version 2 yet.
What about becoming LESS contagious and causing you to be LESS ill?
They shelved V2 Plans when Biden magically “won” the election.
Not yet
They had thought it would be uncontested
They continually dont get Trump
Its rewdy to go if he overturns this by all the evidence
1) "Usually" the mutations are insignificant. However, you are correct that of the small percentage of mutations that are significant mutations affecting contagiousness and lethality, most are in the direction of more contagious but less lethal. A much smaller number will be more lethal. Generally, for a variety of reasons that don't even involve, say, viability of the virus with time outside the host, greater lethality promotes LESS spread of a pathogen, not greater spread.
That said, given enough chances, more lethal strains do pop up from time to time, because there are so many chances for a mutation to occur: A contagious person can output 200 million virions in a single sneeze. An infected person themselves can carry 10^9 to 10^11 virions. That is a lot of chances for mutation!
My own guess is that usually mild diseases may have a sort of genetic momentum that keeps them mild but successful, success being very effective spread.
2) Notice what just popped out above, though. Of "significant mutations affecting contagiousness and lethality, most are in the direction of more contagious but less lethal." This is very well known, studied, and documented. But from the pathogen's point of view, that IS success. So, the idea that no mutations are beneficial to any mutated organisms is complete hogwash.
15 MILLION cull mink? Wouldn’t you say that was an over reaction based on hysteria? Maybe profit if the farmers expect to get a return from their losses
No, its not an over reaction to a infectious mutation, and the Danes are not prone to hysteria. The financial losses to Danish mink farmers are a drop in the bucket compared with the global economic calamity a mutated covid virus would cause.
A bunch of mink in Oregon got infected too.
As with regard to harmful mutations, if it was initially a “bat virus” that can infect humans, and mutated to become a “mink virus” - yes the original bat virus got degraded. (It can no longer survive in bats - so sad.)
However - this changed virus can survive in mink, which may be one more step in infecting people more easily and/or with a worse illness. Or not!
Is the death rate in Minks higher then humans if so why?
If not why cull them?
The death rate among mink really isn't the issue, its the ability of the virus to find another host, mutate, and continue to infect humans.
You're looking at endless restrictions if this thing can't be eradicated, especially if another strain emerges that the current vaccines don't work against.
Given that multiple vaccines are targeted a different aspect of Covid, it would seem that at least one vaccine would be helpful against a given mutation. No?
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