Posted on 01/24/2022 2:38:34 PM PST by LibertyWoman
A sub-variant of the omicron strain is reportedly in at least 40 countries and pushing the previous strain aside as its surge has finally declined slightly.
The "stealth" omicron variant -- any many scientists have referred to it -- has been difficult to identify due to a lack of genetic characteristics used to initially identify the omicron variant, according to World Health Organization member Vipin M. Vashishtha.
Omicron, known as B.1.1.529, has three subvariants: BA. 1, BA. 2, and BA. 3, with BA. 1 responsible for more than 99% of the cases amid the variant's surge and now BA.2 possibly on the rise, having been reported in the United Kingdtom and Scandinavia.
The original BA.1 is considered to be very contagious, however, researchers believe the BA.2 could be even more contagious.
"BA.2 shares 32 mutations w/ BA.1, but it also has 28 unique mutations," Vashishtha tweeted. "Some diff in S1. E is the same, N & M are diff in 1 mutation between the two variants. And...quite a difference when we go to OFT1ab."
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It’s the Wells-1897 variant.
H.G. 97 for short.
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Run for your life?
The country has yet to see a difference in the rate of hospitalizations or deaths since the “stealth” omicron cases were reported.
great name
The sub variant is scary.
It is said to Run Silent, Run Deep
Don’t worry. Just bow down and do what Lord Faui and Sublord Biden says and you’ll be saved.
Well if they get to the “Andromeda Strain”....
What bunk, if they can’t Gene Sequence it, then it isn’t there, just a rumor to case even more panic by the Drug Companies to con you to take even more drugs for something getting pretty harmless.
My wife is sick and she did a teleappt with the PA. She tested negative for Covid (antigen) but the PA said “Everything is Covid now” IOW it permeates everything.
I’ve been around my wife since 1983 and this is a lung reaction to mold.
‘These hysteria merchants apparently do not realize how many of us are just so over this BS’
the idiots among us-—medicos seeking self aggrandizement, politicians who love strong arming voters, public school admins who love telling kids to mask up and shut up-—are not the least bit over this virus...
And you need the “CONE OF SILENCE” to talk about it.
The vaccinated will need another booster.
“B.1.1.529”
and the 528 variants preceding the above didn’t cause any trouble at all.
yawn, most of the country has moved on.
‘Do you have a citation?’
nah, I have a Mustang...
Omigawd! it’s the Omigawd variant, quick.... start printing mail-in ballots!
you don’t quarantine well people either.
My in-laws had a Citation. It spent many hours at the mechanic.
Double-secret variant.
I need to watch that again some day.
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