Posted on 08/06/2021 10:09:17 AM PDT by Brookhaven
While the delta variant of the coronavirus has quickly become the dominant strain in the United States, it’s not the only variant circulating in the population.
The lambda variant, first identified in Peru, is also making headlines as it has started to be identified in several states. Houston Methodist Hospital reported its first case of the variant this week. Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina recently announced they had found the variant in a virus sample taken in April.
According to a database for scientists tracking coronavirus variants, fewer than 700 cases of the lambda variant have been sequenced in the U.S. so far out of more than 34 million coronavirus cases reported to date. But the U.S. has sequenced only a tiny fraction of its cases, so that number does not reflect the actual number of lambda cases in the country.
Fewer than 1% of U.S. cases in the last four weeks have been identified as the lambda variant, according to GISAID, a repository for genome data.
So do we need to add lambda to our list of big worries in the U.S.? Not yet, according to public health officials and experts.
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonpublicmedia.org ...
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Oh, my goodness! ANOTHER variant!
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!?!?!?!
Someday.
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LOL
“Six Sigma”
Is that still in vogue? Or did it fall by the wayside, like PRIDE (personal responsibility in daily efforts), and Zero Defects.
Damma phi nu
The guy on the right: his barn door is open.
I had the BEST time with the Delta Frat when I was in college. 1979-1988
SARS-COV-2 mutates constantly. Researchers have the ability to quickly sequence samples to reveal strains making some foothold in the wild. They have identified thousands of strains. They couldn't do that in the not too distant past, so you didn't hear of it.
Researchers don't make up the "variants." They talk of strains, lineages, and clades. Delta is clade 21A, lineage B.1.617.2.
The WHO started to assign Greek letters to clades they considered "of interest" or "of concern." So they refer to clade 21A as Delta, 21G as Lambda. See CoVariants dot Org.
Delta Lambda. Kappa up next. 😆
Another AIDS?
a long line a variants coming and more booster shots, oh goodie. What a lie
From what I’ve read he was the main writer of the script and passed away soon after, Douglas Kenney.
That means vaccination is more important than ever, Ray says: “As the variants become more infectious, then the proportion of vaccinated people required to control the epidemic increases.”...
uh how exactly does a “vaccine” that does not prevent you from getting the variant and does not stop it from being infectious towards others control the epidemic. do these robotic fear mongers expect us to believe their crap? some people need to be called on their crap-prior to internet there would be a lot of bloody noses from crap like this.
the delta variant is burning itself out much quicker than the virus- and supposedly it’s not as dangerous as covid- which itself was 99.96% survivable or something like that-
The left are trampling people’s rights all over a virus that is nearly 100% survivable-
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