Posted on 03/25/2021 8:07:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India.
Officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be more infectious or less affected by vaccines.
Some 10,787 samples from 18 Indian states also showed up 771 cases of known variants - 736 of the UK, 34 of the South African and one Brazilian.
Officials say the variants are not linked to a spike in cases in India.
India reported 47,262 cases and 275 deaths on Wednesday - the sharpest daily rise this year.
The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG), a group of 10 national laboratories under India's health ministry, carried out genomic sequencing on the latest samples. Genomic sequencing is a testing process to map the entire genetic code of an organism - in this case, the virus.
The genetic code of the virus works like its instruction manual. Mutations in viruses are common but most of them are insignificant and do not cause any change in its ability to transmit or cause serious infection. But some mutations, like the ones in the UK or South Africa variant lineages, can make the virus more infectious and in some cases even deadlier.
Virologist Shahid Jameel explained that a "double mutation in key areas of the virus's spike protein may increase these risks and allow the virus to escape the immune system".
The spike protein is the part of the virus that it uses to penetrate human cells.
The government said that an analysis of the samples collected from India's western Maharashtra state showed "an increase in the fraction of samples with the E484Q and L452R mutations" compared with December last year.
"Such [double] mutations confer immune escape and increased infectivity," the health ministry said
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Sounds like another scariant.
Must.keep.fear.porn.alive.
ROTFLMAO.... oh yeah.... the reboot of Total Recall. Much better than the first.
Double mutant will take 4 masks and 8 shots with 24 feet apart for a quarantine of 48 months. That’s my science.
Wait ... Double Mutant? Isn’t that something like “Double Secret Probation?”
Yay. Fear porn. 🙄
A double mutant virus? That will require quadruple mutant masks!
That would earn a triple bruuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmski! right there. Fun bags for days. LOL
*sigh*
More fear narrative.
Sheesh, it’s not Ebola or Black Death.
It’s a cold.
There is that factor, which IMO would be inevitable with all the sanitizing we are doing.
There is also the vaccine escape factor.
Cases determined by what?
A 90% false positive by a test that was never intended to be used as a diagnostic tool in the first place?
Spike Protein? Is this common in all viruses,chicken pox,Flu,etc.?
Or is this Spike Protein in the Cov 19 unique in that it allowed this Bat virus to penetrate human cells when previously it could not?
Money line right there: “...immune escape and increased infectivity,” the health ministry said
Triple mutant can’t be far behind.
And THAT is why Xi Jinping should take skydiving lessons without a parachute.
I unplugged it, waited ten seconds, then plugged it back in, but that didn’t work.
And all those people are untreated until they are in trouble.
If the patients were treated with prophylactics, I’ll bet both the death rate and organ damage rate would be a fraction of what it is now.
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