Posted on 07/10/2020 12:30:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
The novel coronavirus uses its spike protein (dark blue) to infiltrate host cells, whose machinery it uses to replicate its RNA (yellow).
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A mutation in the protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells might make it easier for the virus to spread — or it might not make a difference at all.
That's the crux of a debate over a mutation known as D614G, which affects the spike protein on the virus' surface. The mutation is not new. It appears in low levels in samples taken from COVID-19 patients as far back as February. But this variation of the virus (nicknamed the "G" variation) seems to show up in more and more of the virus samples taken from people infected recently compared to early in the pandemic.
A new paper, published July 2 in the journal Cell, argues that the rise in the "G" variation of the new coronavirus is due to natural selection. The study finds that virus particles with this mutation have an easier time making their way into cells, suggesting that it is outcompeting other strains of the virus to become the dominant version of SARS-CoV-2. Other, not-yet-published experiments have found similar results. However, some researchers are not yet convinced that the mutation has any real-world impact on coronavirus transmission at all. Instead, it's possible that the G variant's spread is due to chance, said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Medicine who co-authored a commentary accompanying the paper's publication.
"The virus could have easily gotten lucky," Grubaugh told Live Science.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
And somehow it will vanish Nov 4th.
so....the virus is changing and mutating, which is something viruses always do, and all of the “brilliant” scientists who have been given carte-blanche to run all of our lives have absolutely no idea what it means.
Everything is back to normal here except with the Healthy Idiots wearing Masks and Rubber Gloves
Title: “A new coronavirus mutation is taking over the world”
And then a line or two into the article it says that the mutation may not mean anything at all????? How does “taking over the world” mean nothing?
As I see someone posted already, the disease will go away November 4.
Love it, “here’s what it means” read, read, read..... We don’t know what it means.
Priceless. They achieved their mission to get noticed for something.
EV 20 aka 2020 Election Virus
IS IT NOVEMBER 4TH YET???
What absolutely terrible “journalism”. Who on Earth wrote this terrible headline? How about something like “New mutation observed in SARS-CoV-2”?
Of course if Biden wins, it will be “VIRUS WHAT VIRUS” economy will open back up and no one will die anymore..virus will be gone..just like with swine flu, no one talked about it, no one knew a damn thing about it, it was non existent because ya know, the messiah Obama was in office
Just an excuse to explain it’s low mortality rate it always had when treated properly and without the Northern Governors murdering their elderly population.
Oh noes!
So during the period we locked down half or more of the healthy hosts, the virus got more efficient at infecting the hosts it could find
What a coinky dink...who wouldnt have seen that coming
Lets try more lockdowns and see how “lucky” the virus is
But this variation of the virus (nicknamed the “G” variation) seems to show up in more and more of the virus samples taken from people infected recently compared to early in the pandemic.
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The ‘G’ is for “government”.
When do we start to push?
Drives me nuts young healthy couples in sunny parks with masks on. They’re idiots making a political statement but pretend they “care” soooooo much about others effing liars
I like the first sentence.
“A mutation in the protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells might make it easier for the virus to spread — or it might not make a difference at all.”
Yep. Honesty at last.
My opinion is over time lower pathogenicity, easier transmission will take place.
That’s based on SCIENCE.
Really, it is, although I’m being a bit facetious above.
But a novel to human zoonotic virus is most likely to follow such a course via natural selection.
Call it what you will. Fauci/Biden will blame Trump for it and it will disappear in early November.
Partisan Media Shills update, Panic Porn division.
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WUFLU 20 21 22 just around the corner.
Need NATIONAL DISTANCING from the ChiCom Plague Pit NOW.
END all travel with ChiCom and Moratorium on all goods from ChiCom china til effective testing system is in place.
DOMESTIC Manufacture of ALL drugs, medical equipment and materials (deny the ChiComs control of such things)
Meanwhile Pelosi and her cadre prattle on about spending another 10 Trillion dollars ‘stimulus’ which mostly goes to propping up big government.
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