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New COVID-19 variant — R.1 — has some scientists on edge
justthenews.com ^ | 9/22/2021

Posted on 09/22/2021 6:22:58 PM PDT by bitt

The variant appears to be more closely related to the original coronavirus strain and originated from Japan.

Experts have discovered a new COVID-19 variant at a nursing home in Kentucky.

The new R.1 variant has previously unseen characteristics that have some scientists worried, according to Epoch Times,

The variant appears to be more closely related to the original coronavirus strain and originated in Japan. Nearly all the residents at the nursing home in Kentucky were vaccinated, yet the new strain seems to have infected them regardless.

R.1 has now received over 10,000 entries in the GISAID SARS-CoV-2 database, the world's largest for the virus and where researchers go to track and record genomic data.

According to a science writer at Forbes magazine, the new strain may be easier to contract due to protein mutations within the spike protein of the virus.

So far the R.1 variant does not seem more deadly than previous variants, but its ability to be easily transmitted from person to person despite vaccination status does have scientists on edge.


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21 posted on 09/22/2021 6:58:37 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: bitt

Ever notice how we seem to get things under control with reports of covid cases declining and then almost like clockwork....a new variant shows up.


22 posted on 09/22/2021 7:01:21 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: All

I predict the 873rd variant will be the bad one. No wait, the 666th variant. Avoid that one.


23 posted on 09/22/2021 7:01:38 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the land of the free )
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To: bitt
Maybe the vaccine doesn't work so well and they are coving it up with a new variant.
24 posted on 09/22/2021 7:13:31 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...aTo the American gulag with this guy.nd with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: dforest

+ 10000000000000


25 posted on 09/22/2021 7:18:35 PM PDT by laplata
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To: bitt

This crap will never end. It’ll be perpetual.


26 posted on 09/22/2021 7:21:01 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: week 71

“This is exhausting”.

It certainly is.


27 posted on 09/22/2021 7:21:13 PM PDT by laplata
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To: mass55th

“Some scientists” is the operative phrase. Who cares if they are on edge? Other scientist are not on edge and I bet there are more than just a few who post here. It’s obvious from the replies we (FR) have M.D.’s, R.N.’s and Ph.D.’s here who are raising the BS flag on all of this.


28 posted on 09/22/2021 7:32:04 PM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: bitt

“Nearly all the residents at the nursing home in Kentucky were vaccinated, yet the new strain seems to have infected them regardless. “

Falsi’s solution: Get a pooster of more poisonb


29 posted on 09/22/2021 7:40:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: All; bitt

The “R.1” variant not that “new”...been around in Kentucky skilled nursing facilities since April:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7017e2.htm


30 posted on 09/22/2021 7:47:37 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago

That was back before we knew the vaccines would crap out in eight months.


31 posted on 09/22/2021 7:51:39 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Jewbacca

the official position is there is no natural immunity


32 posted on 09/22/2021 7:52:27 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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33 posted on 09/22/2021 7:55:42 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: bitt

Another vaccine created mutant virus?


34 posted on 09/22/2021 7:56:21 PM PDT by upsdriver (Go back and read the Q posts The picture becomes much clearer. Future does prove past.)
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To: Jewbacca

Yes they can, but the effects of the variant would most likely be reduced since natural immunity engenders a broader and longer lasting immunity than the vaccines..


35 posted on 09/22/2021 8:07:19 PM PDT by Bobalu (The plan must be to distract from Afghanistan by doing something even more stupid )
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To: dynoman

The vaccine “craps out” as you say in days...your body’s antibody/T-cell response is what is declining over time. Declines faster in the elderly and immunocompromised.


36 posted on 09/22/2021 8:10:38 PM PDT by Drago
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To: DocRock

Who would have guessed a centrally planned immunity works about as well as a centrally planed economy?

Who would have guessed selectively breeding the virus for vaccine evasion could have resulted in strains that get around these over focused immunity schemes?

Its almost like giving someone antibiotics and killing off the most vulnerable bacteria and then stopping to let the ones with any resistance go on and multiply.

Who could have foreseen any of this?

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37 posted on 09/22/2021 8:11:34 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: MNJohnnie

MNJohnnie wrote:


https://deadline.com/2021/09/r-1-new-covid-variant-u-s-japan-1234841685/#:~:text=According%20to%20a,to%20the%20findings

Here is a little context for the fear porn merchants. Tracking it since March and yet only 10,000 cases of this “high infection” variant are reported?”

From the article:

“(The outbreak reportedly began with an infected staffer.) “

Same as what happened in Washington state early on in the pandemic, staffer at a nursing home brought it in...

But, the larger issue with this variant is, if they’ve been tracking it since March, why bring it up now?

To keep people afraid.


38 posted on 09/22/2021 8:23:05 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: bitt

Screw this nonsense

We need to make it end NOW

BOYS AND GIRLS

it’s a dangerous world Filled with viruses. Bacteria. Molds. Etc

We cannot live life in fear anymore.

We must just accept what is in the world and deal with it

Australia is what we get when taken to the next level

Here if idiots try that. They will be shot.

You doubt me ? Do you want dead people ? Real ones ?


39 posted on 09/22/2021 8:47:24 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! I could )
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To: Peter ODonnell; WMarshal
I'm voting for The Variant Formely Known as Prince. This shall be its symbol.


40 posted on 09/22/2021 8:47:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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