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SOURCE: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56517495
Q: Is the variant the reason behind India’s second wave?
India reported 47,262 cases and 275 deaths on Wednesday - the sharpest daily rise this year.
Dr Rakesh Mishra, director of the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), told me that the “double-variant” had been found in 20% of the cases in Maharashtra, which has seen a huge spike in reported infections.
“One suspicion is that this variant is the cause of India’s second wave of infections. I would say no, 80% of the samples we have sequenced don’t have this combination of mutants. This mutant has been linked to only 230 cases in Maharashtra of the several thousand samples sequenced,” he said.
“Have you tried rebooting your vaccine?”
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Oh, noes!! Double-Mutant!!
Forget the infectiousness of this normal phenomenon....what’s the lethality?
I see case rates went up, in India (they said this Double-Mutant strain has nothing to do with that) but death rates are low.
*sigh*
More fear narrative.
Sheesh, it’s not Ebola or Black Death.
It’s a cold.