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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert (South Africa this time)
Nature ^ | 11-25-21 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 11/25/2021 9:02:42 PM PST by dynachrome

Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.

A top priority is to track the variant more closely as it spreads: it was first identified in Botswana this month and has turned up in travellers to Hong Kong from South Africa. Scientists are also trying to understand the variant’s properties, such as whether it can evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and whether it causes more or less severe disease than other variants do.

“We’re flying at warp speed,” says Penny Moore, a virologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, whose lab is gauging the variant’s potential to dodge immunity from vaccines and previous infections. There are anecdotal reports of reinfections and cases in vaccinated individuals, but “at this stage it’s too early to tell

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To: dynachrome

Waiting for the CDC to announce the Andromeda strain of COVID that is so contagious you can get it by text messages. Fauci will urge people to wear quadruple masks, lock themselves in their homes for the immediate future and wrap their bodies in plastic wrap. Joe Biden appears in a hazmat suit to address the nation but is quickly rushed off stage as he apparently passed one of his rancorous farts while suited up fogging his visor and making it impossible to read his teleprompter.


41 posted on 11/26/2021 10:21:47 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: setter

Hey STUPID Liberal......The PCR test is a FRAUD. What part do you NOT understand?????

Are you really this STUPID????


42 posted on 11/26/2021 11:31:39 AM PST by afchief
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To: afchief

“Hey STUPID Liberal. Are you really this STUPID????”

A close friend of mine died of covid age 61 on Tuesday. I am going to his showing tonight at 6:00. He had zero health issues and was of fairly normal weight.

You covid deniers make me puke.

Go away.


43 posted on 11/26/2021 1:35:53 PM PST by setter
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To: setter

Hey LYING Liberal........I will ask you again....HOW do you know it was Covid?

The PCR test is a FRAUD......Even the CDC says so

So one more time........HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS COVID?


44 posted on 11/26/2021 3:23:36 PM PST by afchief
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To: rxsid; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...

just to make sure you all see #19 and #20


45 posted on 11/27/2021 9:29:14 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: rxsid

If this new variant turns out to be worse than Delta, like a number of scientists are saying is possible, there will be a return to massive lockdowns and restrictions on civil liberties. Especially if it affects the vaccinated like Delta did.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Public Health is not following the science....in desperation it is following systemic totalitarian political control for purposes of presrving the “Health System.” They do not care much about the general public.Basic bureaucratic elitism.

Public Health ius starting to fall apart as they realize the VAX does not work.There has to be a shift over to IVM, a battle royal is coming between lock down orders, and those who know and use IVM.

We are ALL going to be infected with Covid sooner or later, the trick is to manage the infection and beat it, which is the approach of IVM users....that way a person can safely achieve genuine immunity for Covid......until a radical variant emerges again,,,,,the then IVM will work on that too.

We need to educate the public on how to treat themselves. IVM should be widely available over the counter , cheaply.

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The Governement misleads America:

1) mRNA vaccines DO NOT provide immunity of any kind.No antibodies.

2) mRNA vaccines do not prevent transmisson of the virus.

3) mRNA vaccines do attenuate Civud symptoms if the Covid mutant variant is vulnerable, for a limited period of 5 months ( Pfizer) to 6 or 8 months ( Moderna).

4) The mRNA vaccines do not work in the nasal cavity, in the pharnyx or in the lung, they only work in the blood stream, but give no protection to Covid involved organs.IVM does.

Thats why Ivermectin in your friend when taken within a few days of the infection or as prophylaxis:

How to get Ivermectin:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/how-to-get-ivermectin/

OR :

India Mart:

https://dir.indiamart.com/search.mp?ss=12+mg+ivermectin+tablet&prdsrc=1&src=as-popular%3Akwd%3Divermectin12mg%3Apos%3D2%3Acat%3D-2%3Amcat%3D-2

Protocol to Follow:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Alliance-I-MASKplus-Protocol-ENGLISH.pdf


46 posted on 11/27/2021 9:45:57 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes “mild disease”

“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell. They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home,” Coetzee said.

https://m.timesofindia.com/world/rest-of-world/south-african-medical-association-says-omicron-variant-causes-mild-disease/articleshow/87949404.cms


47 posted on 11/27/2021 3:21:52 PM PST by little jeremiah (Where We Go One We Go All)
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To: dynachrome

https://t.me/RealSKeshel/2245

How are the Branch Covidians in your life handling the new “scariant” designed to allow for more mail in voting in 11 months time?


48 posted on 11/27/2021 3:22:19 PM PST by little jeremiah (Where We Go One We Go All)
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To: setter

I know of no one who has died from covid and I know of no one who knows anyone who has died from covid. I do know multiple people who have died after getting jabbed.


49 posted on 11/27/2021 3:26:38 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: little jeremiah

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes “mild disease”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well, did the Red Chinese manipulate WHO to jump the shark?

Trump would not fall for such a trap.

Biden would.


50 posted on 11/27/2021 4:42:36 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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