Posted on 03/03/2021 7:49:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 called P.1 seems to be able to reinfect people who already recovered from COVID-19, despite whatever protections their immune systems built up.
The variant, which was discovered and began circulating in Brazil back in December, poses a new threat that has scientists worried about the potential for yet another major wave of the coronavirus, The New York Times reports. It’s currently surging in the city of Manaus, but has also spread to 24 countries as well as several US states.
“It’s right to be worried about P.1, and this data gives us the reason why,” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health epidemiologist William Hanage told the NYT.
Scientists have preliminary data about the P.1 variant’s troubling ability to reinfect coronavirus survivors, but their lab research hasn’t yet been published in an academic journal or validated in the field, the NYT reports. But experts still advise caution.
“The findings apply to Manaus, but I don’t know if they apply to other places,” Imperial College London researcher Nuno Faria, who helped lead the P.1 research, told the NYT.
Still, Faria urges extreme caution and says that we should still do absolutely everything we can to slow down the spread of the coronavirus — continuing to isolate ourselves and wear masks will continue to go a long way, even among those who think they’ve developed a resistance to the disease.
“The ultimate message is that you need to step up all the vaccination efforts as soon as possible,” Faria told the NYT. “You need to be one step ahead of the virus.”
Thanks, ChiComs (and your stooges here and around the world)
Here it comes... their excuse to keep everyone locked down forever.
“Still, Faria urges extreme caution and says that we should still do absolutely everything we can to slow down the spread of the coronavirus — continuing to isolate ourselves and wear masks will continue to go a long way, even among those who think they’ve developed a resistance to the disease.”
Got to keep the fear going.
Now that Covid is under control and we are opening up, let’s start a new round of fear mongering over a new strain.
another Nobel Prize to FauXi and CDC for making
these NOVEL ATrocities for their OWN profit,
using the future murder of Americans
for their CCP-controllers??
Dang! Better break out them hexamasks.😷 You’ll be six times more protected. Paging dr fauxcheeze.
It almost makes me wonder just how many variations were created in the cooperative effort between American Universities and the Chinese military.
Don’t forget to thank Fauci and the NIH for funding the bioweapon.
And now the borders are wide open.
And thank you President Trump for praising Fauci to the hilt as a great scientist, and referring to COVID-19 as the “Deadly Plague” at those idiotic COVID-19 pressers. This helped give this fraud credibility.
If the new variant can re-infect people who developed immunity to the previous variant, why do they think the vaccines will confer immunity to it? What does the vaccine do that naturally occurring immunity doesn’t?
I’m confused. Why is it that variants of the virus are all named after the country they came from but our government now won’t call the initial virus the China Virus?
Wonder if the clinical syndrome observed when previously infected people are exposed to this variant is actually the symptoms of an immunological response rather than an actual pervasive, invasive infection directly impacting organs such as the lungs or heart. If it is an immunological reaction, it is can be serious but it is less likely to kill or follow the same pattern as a novel infection.
So FR is going to reprint every BS story on a new more deadly Virus on a daily basis? This a complete load of manure to keep us locked down.
Suggest all go read this article, check the source and corroborating factors. THIS IS PURE AGITPROP.
This will be the next justification trying to extend the lockdown/mask requirement due to the super deadly, super contagious Brazilian San Paolo Covid-19 P strain.
RE: Why is it that variants of the virus are all named after the country they came from but our government now won’t call the initial virus the China Virus?
Same reason why Disney and the NBA keeps doing business with China even as the CCP considers homosexuality a mental illness and forces their minorities into re-education camps.
Obviously, natural immunity from getting infected isnt enough to protect you.
Demand Vaccinated Only be accepted on your next travel vacation.
Demand Vaccinated Only flights/cruises/hotels/casinos, call your travel agent today!
Just strap a small pillow of Mike’s to your face.
Why is it legal to say Brazilian strain, but illegal to say China or Wuhan strain?
Ah Good! If it didn’t exist, we would have had to invent it. Keep the proles under control at all costs.
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