Posted on 12/21/2020 9:00:19 PM PST by blam
U.S. Army scientists are analyzing a new COVID-19 strain found in the United Kingdom and investigating if the current vaccines are sufficient to fight it.
Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research last week began analyzing data to determine the extent of the new mutated variant's danger and to try and determine if the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will fight off the strain.
"It stands to reason that this mutation isn't a threat, but you never know," Nelson Michael, a doctor at the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, told CNN.
"We still have to be diligent and continue to look."
Scientists began their research by doing a computer analysis of the new strain. If results show a concern, studies will be conducted in laboratories and in animals to determine if the vaccine will work on this variant.
"The computer analysis will allow us to gauge how much concern we should have," Michael said. "Other teams around the world are doing this analysis, too."
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are being distributed around the United States. They work by creating genetic blueprints for the spikes that appear on the surface of the original coronavirus. The immune system then attacks those spikes.
There have been no reports of the new strain in the United States as of yet.
Experts, citing that viruses are always mutating, say the new strain won't necessarily nullify the current vaccine.
"Even with mutations, the virus essentially stays the same," said William Schaffner, an adviser to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It's like with a person. I can switch out my brown coat for a gray coat, but I'm still Bill Schaffner.
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Charlie McCarthy?
The elites are OK with this because this gives them an excuse to shut them out and starve them into begging for re-acceptance into the EU.
And, if by some miracle Trump does remain in power, "they" will use his delay in shutting down travel from the UK as grounds for another impeachment
I don’t want to be Bill Schaffner though.
Just another scam. Welcome to COVID tyranny for ever.
On the bright side, the WuhanFlu has licked the seasonal flu’s a$$. Hardly any cases...everything’s a covid now!
In a laboratory setting, a virus can be mutated at mind-boggling rates. I’d operate under the presumption that someone is deliberately releasing bio-weapons against us, for the economic damage alone. We all know which country would benefit economically by reducing our competitive advantages in many areas. It is clear that this virus has been unleashed upon us, in not such a great enough calamity to invoke an all-out response, but rather, death by a thousand cuts. It is long past time for a serious phone call to be made to Xi, outlining the responses to any future “mutations” that are discovered. It’s a bio-Pearl Harbor, alongside an electronic Pearl Harbor (Solarwinds hacking of our governmental and infrastructure IT). It is asymmetrical war, and it is openly being deployed against those who can see clearly what the facts are.
When the initial ‘wave’ started in China and Europe....at the very end of that spring period, it’d finally arrived in South Africa (while the other nations were in a warm spell and seeing a very low infection rate).
South Africa was then in its winter stage and the virus easily passed around at a high rate. I would make a guess that some regional doctors went to some alternate route with medications and whipped it into a higher protein-state of existence. ‘Winter’ came to an end in August in South Africa, and Brits who were vacationing there in September...brought it back to the isle.
I’d prepare myself for more modifications to occur over the next decade, and this will be a routine thing. It’s not going away....it’ll just keep modifying itself.
Worse than the "avian" or "Swine" flus that were bad a few years ago? We don't worry about those currently...I wonder why that is?
Bio warfare
From day #1
Swine flu vaccine is now (figure for at least a decade) worked into the annual flu vaccine deal. If you asked the nurse or doctor about it...they’d quietly admit it’s part of the regular procedure.
I suspect that Covid will eventually be worked into the same schedule...same flu vaccine and be a regular part of our lives (just like swine flu is).
It should be pointed out for historical purposes....the 2009 Swine Flu period...started in Mexico (not China).
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