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New Covid variant, known as ‘Mu’, under close WHO scrutiny due to concerns over its vaccine resistance
RT ^ | 9-1-21 | RT

Posted on 09/01/2021 6:15:37 AM PDT by dynachrome

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reclassified the ‘Mu’ Covid strain, also known as B.1.621, as a “variant of interest,” amid concerns that its mutations indicate a potential risk of resistance to existing vaccines. The WHO announced the classification in the organization’s weekly pandemic bulletin on Tuesday, several months after the Mu strain was first identified in Colombia.

“The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,” the WHO said, adding that “preliminary data showed it has the same behaviour as the Beta variant.”

The decision to monitor the Mu strain comes amid concern from the WHO about the potential risk of resistance to vaccines posed by new mutations, as case numbers begin to rise globally in countries that have relaxed Covid restrictions.

Since first emerging in Colombia back in January, the Mu variant has spread to other South American nations and some parts of Europe. Despite adding it to its monitoring list, the WHO says the Mu strain only has a 0.1% global prevalence among sequenced cases.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; eyeroll; mu; muvariant; ohnoes; variant; who
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I was getting worried. I hadn't seen a new variant for at least 2 days./s
1 posted on 09/01/2021 6:15:37 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Fauci: Now you will need a SIXTH BOOSTER SHOT......................


2 posted on 09/01/2021 6:17:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dynachrome

What happened to lambda?


3 posted on 09/01/2021 6:18:23 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: dynachrome

Ivermectin shields the receptor against EVERY new, mutated, or bio-engineered spike protein.

Yet, somehow, the WHO fails to inform the planet. Why is that ?


4 posted on 09/01/2021 6:19:29 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: dynachrome

I’m not a medical professional. I’m a decent observer who has been around for a few years. Enough disclaimer.

It appears that this virus is going to be around for a long time, and there is nothing we can do about it. People will get sick, some will die, but eventually, our bodies will develop defenses. Hiding in our homes will just delay the inevitable. Vaccines will be hit and miss, and involve some significant unknowns. It seems that focusing on treatments and taking reasonable precautions is our best plan.

It occurs to me that the covid situation is similar to climate change in terms of how some of us see humans ability to control their environment. They think we can make the planet’s climate conform to our wishes. They think we can control a virus. Neither is true.


5 posted on 09/01/2021 6:22:57 AM PDT by brownsfan (For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
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To: dynachrome

This variant was named after the lost continent of Mu, where is was developed and spread by the evil Dr. Ming, who came from the moon last Monday.


6 posted on 09/01/2021 6:24:09 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: dynachrome

Which is why natural immunity is the best


7 posted on 09/01/2021 6:27:57 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: brownsfan

We can’t control anything.

Claiming that we can is just deception.

Life happens and you do the best with what you’ve got and leave it all in God’s hands.


8 posted on 09/01/2021 6:29:49 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: dynachrome
Look, every year the regular flu vaccines have to be recalibrated to go after strains of the flu that are anticipated as being dominant in the coming season they are manufactured for. Its hit or miss as sometimes those making the. Vaccines guess wrong.

So why would we expect this new kind of vaccine would be effective against every variant of this sars virus?

But then unlike the regular flu vaccine, these new vaccines do kill a small fraction of those who take them, and I suppose the dead are immune to variants...so I guess in that way the new ones are better. But the vast majority of those taking them don't die within a couple days, and they of course have no such blanket immunity to new variants like the dead do.

Although some have warned that the new vaccines will be deadly in the long run...so if they are right then the efficacy of the new vaccine type to future variants may go up as those who took it die prematurely. But the science is out on that since the new experimental vaccines have no data at all about real life long term effects yet.

9 posted on 09/01/2021 6:34:32 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: dynachrome; Daffynition
New Covid variant, known as ‘Mu’


10 posted on 09/01/2021 6:35:26 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: AndyTheBear

BINGO, this covid just moves faster.


11 posted on 09/01/2021 6:37:17 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: dynachrome

More ammunition to keep us in a constant state of fear.


12 posted on 09/01/2021 6:39:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Trump: Make America Great Again. biden: Make Taliban Great Again. (Click on my user name))
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“But the science is out on that since the new experimental vaccines have no data at all about real life long term effects yet.”

BECAUSE....the study group are the millions of guinea pigs...erhumans...who took the shots????


13 posted on 09/01/2021 6:43:06 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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14 posted on 09/01/2021 6:44:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: Ezekiel

Exactly...it’s a throwback to mad cow disease.


15 posted on 09/01/2021 6:45:42 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Do NOT buy Chinese ProductsI)
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To: dynachrome

“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI


16 posted on 09/01/2021 6:46:57 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism ruins everything it touches. NUTS - Not United Troubled States.)
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To: dynachrome
Like those Japanese Egyptians from the Empire of Mu?


17 posted on 09/01/2021 6:51:33 AM PDT by conservativeimage (Do not go quietly into that good night. We won't be taken alive. Molon Labe.)
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To: dynachrome

Yep, let’s roll out the new ‘variant’ of concern. This week, it’s Mu. Last week, it was Delta. Next week, Pi?


18 posted on 09/01/2021 6:54:34 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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To: dynachrome

Just wait until we get the tau chi omega variant batch done brewing.


19 posted on 09/01/2021 6:54:54 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dynachrome

Mu is the 12th letter in the Greek alphabet. Seems like a lot of variants are missing. Or are they so weak as to not merit notice? Nu is next.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 6:55:43 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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