Scientists Detect Seven More Coronavirus Variants In U.S. With Similar Mutation To More Infectious U.K. Type

Forbes ^ | 02/15/2021 | Siladitya Ray

[SeekAndFind]

While the British variant is more contagious, the variant from South Africa appears to some extent to blunt the effectiveness of existing vaccines, according to limited, early data. Emergence of similarly threatening homegrown variants could compound the challenge, but knowledge about mutations within the U.S. remains woefully limited as the country has sequenced genomes from less than 1% of all coronavirus samples.

[KC_Lion]

Crematoriums from Space Episode 5: The Deep State Strikes Back

[riverrunner]

Time to shut the whole country done.

Time for road blocks internal passports.

Time to chip every one.

It is coming boys and girls

Not soon enough for some.

[IYAS9YAS]

Viruses mutate. Who knew?

[knarf]

A GLOBAL SYSTEM ALERT ?

[blueunicorn6]

There must be bodies, or money, everywhere.

[BitWielder1]

Just like all other flu variants, it keeps changing. It will be used as an excuse to keep the mask mandate and travel restrictions forever, vaccine or not.

[rktman]

Seven shots or 14?

[MTsumi]

I can’t keep track, are we on double-dupper contagious or triple-supper contagious? Hopefully we don’t hit defcon quadro-supper-dupper mucho grande contagious. I’ve already got 5 masks on and I can’t take anymore.

[cgbg]

One vaccine per variant forever—call it the “jab of the week” program, yup, that is a _great_ plan!

[GOPJ]

Has even one commie piece of filth democrat called for China to 'apologize' yet?

[Artcore]

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JennysCool]

Gotta keep THE FEAR going!

Too many low-info Americans are discovering the “President” isn’t exactly what the media sold them.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

How convenient the variants were announced the week after the vaccines rolled out

[JennysCool]

Double-Secret Contagious!

[RC one]

"If you were to ask me right now, what's most concerning of all the things that I've heard so far, it's the fact that they are reporting a sudden increase in cases in Manaus, Brazil," virus expert Jeremy Luban at the University of Massachusetts told NPR two weeks ago before the variant arrived in the United States. "Manaus already had 75% of people infected [in the spring of last year]."

The concern with P.1 is twofold: Scientists don't understand why the variant has spread so explosively in Brazil, and the variant carries a particularly dangerous set of mutations.

This is the one that will cause ADE IMO. Neutralizing antibodies from previous infections and vaccinations will not bind to this variant properly leading to the potential for antibody dependent enhancement of the virus in alveolar macrophage ACE 2 receptors.

[BiglyCommentary]

So is the current vaccine going to be like flu shots, not effect because it was “engineered” for last year’s model and the new model is different?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Sometimes I miss the days when techniques of virology weren’t developed to the point of being able to detect every minuscule and irrelevant variation in a virus. Ignorance isn’t necessarily bliss, but vast knowledge of minor details can definitely cause needless worry.

[BiglyCommentary]

Full military NBC gear for all plebes. Might have to order a triple XXX size to fit over the first one.

[BiglyCommentary]

It’s why many first year med students become raging hypochondriacs. Too much info about every possible ailment and bugaboo.