Posted on 04/25/2021 11:58:15 AM PDT by BeauBo
A new variant of the coronavirus has developed in India, one that is making public health officials worried because it may be causing the country's terrible outbreak and could reduce the efficacy of available vaccines.
The India variant, known as B.1.617 and first identified in October, has been dubbed the “double mutant” variant because it contains two mutations of interest, E484Q and L452R. These are mutations on the spike protein, the part of the virus that attaches to a cell.
"Having two of these mutations which have been seen in other variants around the world are concerning, because there's a similarity in these mutations that confer increased transmissibility, and some of these mutations also result in reduced neutralization, which may have an impact on our countermeasures, including the vaccines," said Maria Van Kerkhove.
E484Q and L452R are known as escape mutations. These types of mutations make it easier for the spike proteins on the virus to evade the antibodies elicited by vaccines and invade cells in the body. Recent research in the journal Cell Host & Microbe found that E484Q was able to evade antibodies in convalescent plasma. An article in Cell recently found that variants containing L452R became more resistant to neutralizing antibodies.
Those attributes raise the fear that a person who's been vaccinated might still be able to carry enough of the mutated virus to infect others, including people who have not been inoculated or have been but have weakened immune systems...
Still, people who have been vaccinated and are infected by a coronavirus mutation are not likely to develop severe COVID-19 or die. Vaccines also elicit a response from another part of the immune system known as T-cells that attack cells infected with a virus... T-cells are able to recognize mutated forms of the coronavirus.
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Most people are dying at home. The govt is now allowing people to bury or cremate family members in their own backyard.
-——Nothing personal, but that sounds totally bogus.
How many people died in the nursing homes under Cuomo, Gruesome Newsome, and Whitmer?
Subtract those from the "elderly deaths" and it will affect the shape of the trend which is used to claim the "vaccines" are reducing deaths.
Its known as the Curry up and die Variant
-——dark humor, you can tell how done we are with all of this.
“-——Nothing personal, but that sounds totally bogus.”
My understanding is that escape mutations are caused by vaccines.
Still, people who have been vaccinated and are infected by a coronavirus mutation are not likely to develop severe COVID-19 or die.
That appears to be false. There's about a 1% mortality for COVID cases whether or not the patient was vaccinated.
“and it will affect the shape of the trend which is used to claim the “vaccines” are reducing deaths”
Israel has proven vaccines work. Majority of theior population is vaccinated. Their new covid cases and death rate is near zero.
I can’t think any group of people who would be more hesistant to take a gov’t vaccine (other than blacks) but low and behold they did.
Bkmk
Not to mention, did the US during the OMG-panic-phase have a different set of diagnostic criteria than Israel does now?
Makes me proud to be American, reading that statement of support to India.
Heartwarming.
If Trump was in the WH it would have happened weeks ago.
Hey, looky here: The Evaluation of Nitric Oxide Generating Lozenges on Outcome in Newly Diagnosed COVID-19 Patient of African Americans
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04601077
“There’s about a 1% mortality for COVID cases whether or not the patient was vaccinated.”
You need to readjust your percentages.
5800 vaccinated people got covid out of 77 million vaccinated. I think only about 400 died.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/health/breakthrough-infections-covid-vaccines-cdc/index.html
Pretty damn good odds.
Cremation is the norm for Hindus.
Local burning is also a common practice to dispose of garbage. I don’t mean in any way to be disrespectful of the dead or their grieving families by pointing this out.
Norms are different there. It is not as much of a leap for at-home cremations, especially under lockdown/quarantine.
“There’s about a 1% mortality for COVID cases whether or not the patient was vaccinated.”
You replied with your incorrect WAG of 7% mortality because you didn't read carefully. I was slightly wrong, there were 88 fatalities among 7,157 cases, or 1.2 mortality. The lie by the establishment and media is that being vaccinated results in a less severe case, less hospitilization, less death. That is not true.
“My understanding is that escape mutations are caused by vaccines.”
Not caused directly, but they kill off the other viruses, leaving the most resistant survivors to reproduce. Natural selection.
Cutting and pasting mass-media puff pieces is irrelevant.
You are missing my point. I have never said covid-19 is a killer disease. Smallpox is a killer disease, kills 30 X more than covid-19. I should know from first hand experience. I contracted smallpox at age 8 and was close to death.
My point again is...the lab created China virus being a brand new virus, humans do not have immunity to that particular virus and that is why it spreads like wild fire. The variants are also dangerous for the same reason. Where as we have been exposed to various forms of influenza viruses for millenniums and that is why it does not spread like wild fire.
In terms lethality, covid-19 is not much more than influenza.
“The lie by the establishment and media is that being vaccinated results in a less severe case, less hospitilization, less death. That is not true.”
Total BS The countries with high vaccination rates covid infection and deaths are dropping like a rock. Israel is a prime example.
I just reread the cnn article. Out of 77 million vaccinated people only 74 people died of covid later on.
“Cutting and pasting mass-media puff pieces is irrelevant.”
At least I am showing some stats and not just spouting out of ass like you are doing.
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