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‘Worrying’ new mutation detected in UK COVID-19 variant
nypost ^ | 02/02/2021 | Jackie Salo

Posted on 02/02/2021 11:53:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The highly contagious COVID-19 variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom appears to have evolved again to include a “worrying” new mutation, researchers said.

Nearly a dozen cases have been identified that include a mutation known as E484K, which has already been identified in the South Africa and Brazil variants, the BBC reported.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: covid; mutation; uk; worrying
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I think lockdowns are causing these new mutations. E484k variant??? Who comes up with these names??
1 posted on 02/02/2021 11:53:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Is this a mutation of the mutation?......................


2 posted on 02/02/2021 11:56:06 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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The reports are starting to sound like ...... the flu.

Brazilian flu, UK flu, South African flu .....

3 posted on 02/02/2021 11:57:05 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thanks CHINA!

China Virus!

China Virus!

China Virus!

China Virus!


4 posted on 02/02/2021 11:59:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (FIBBERS: Earned distrust is disabling.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By all means, worry. Let me know how it goes. ;)


5 posted on 02/02/2021 12:00:58 PM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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this is the new bi-monthly scam now- ‘Worrying new variant found”

How many ‘worrying new variants’ does this make now?


6 posted on 02/02/2021 12:00:58 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Worry warts make life worrysome...they can go away...


7 posted on 02/02/2021 12:01:44 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Many followers of FR didn’t think that we would ever be allowed to return to normal. That’s looking more and more accurate all the time.

Will it be 3 or 4 masks now? Will it be just a few weeks to “flatten the curve”?


8 posted on 02/02/2021 12:01:55 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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Screw this stupid bug and all the stupid fear porn associated with it

it’s just the flu bro

It’s worldwide it’s everywhere live with it


9 posted on 02/02/2021 12:04:07 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Swamp express to communist hell !! )
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Will it be 3 or 4 masks now

4 if you count the ass mask to guard against farts.


10 posted on 02/02/2021 12:04:41 PM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not from man!


11 posted on 02/02/2021 12:05:34 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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I have a better than average immune system. I’ll survive.


12 posted on 02/02/2021 12:05:38 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is all psyops to obscure the original source of the virus. China


13 posted on 02/02/2021 12:06:02 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Uncle Miltie

Politicians will keep milking this virus for as long as they can, as to them it has become like a new found religion giving them another tool to control he public.


14 posted on 02/02/2021 12:06:10 PM PST by saintgermaine (THE TIME TRAVELLER )
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The sky is falling!

Everything is a mutation, myself included.


15 posted on 02/02/2021 12:06:11 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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Gee, its almost like this thing was created to do this...
HHmmmmmmmmmmm... Nah nothing to see here.


16 posted on 02/02/2021 12:06:54 PM PST by TexasM1A
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Oh, noes!

Wait....isn’t that what coronavirus do?


17 posted on 02/02/2021 12:07:41 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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Bring out your dead! Bodies stacking up yet?


18 posted on 02/02/2021 12:07:45 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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"lockdowns are causing these new mutations"

Lockdowns cause plenty of economic damage and psychological issues, but they most certainly do not cause mutations. Mutations are the result of random errors during replication. Replication happens about 100 billion times during the course of an infection. Most of those mutations do nothing or are harmful to the pathogen. Everyone once in a while, a beneficial mutation happens. If it makes replication happen more efficiently or enables infection to spread more effectively, it tends to dominate other versions of the pathogen over time.

"E484k variant??? Who comes up with these names??"

The variant names typically describe the location of the mutation and the change being made. For example, the D614G variant was named because there was a substitution at location 614 from aspartic acid to glycine. E484K is named after a glutamic acid to lysine substitution at amino acid position 484 in the S protein.

19 posted on 02/02/2021 12:07:57 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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“This is the new bi-monthly scam now- ‘Worrying new variant found. How many ‘worrying new variants’ does this make now?”

Precisely. A good many of us have had those thoughts and the media - living a sordid life well on the left (both ways) side of the Bell Curve - will align themselves with this latest meme.


20 posted on 02/02/2021 12:08:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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