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How concerned should we be about the Lambda coronavirus variant?
Los Angeles times. ^ | August 18, 2021 | Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money

Posted on 08/22/2021 4:10:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has spawned a multitude of mutations: from the once-dominant Alpha variant to the still-raging Delta strain.

But with California and the country still in the grips of another COVID-19 surge, a new alphabetized entry — Lambda — has been raising fresh questions about whether it, too, might feature characteristics that could trigger dangerous shifts in the dynamic pandemic landscape.

Lambda, which was first identified in Peru, is worth watching because "it has had massive spread in South America," according to Dr. Benjamin Pinsky, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Stanford University.

When exposed to an immune system that has received a COVID-19 vaccine, the presence of the L452R mutation in the coronavirus has been shown to reduce — by threefold — the effectiveness of antibodies to prevent the entry of viruses into the body's cells, Pinsky said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; covidvariant; lambda; lambdavariant
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1 posted on 08/22/2021 4:10:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone
How concerned should we be about the Lambda coronavirus variant?

I assume we're meant to increase our panic level with each new Greek letter we put in front of the word "variant".
2 posted on 08/22/2021 4:12:54 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: NoLibZone

I’m skeered.


3 posted on 08/22/2021 4:12:54 PM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!!)
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To: NoLibZone

So someone check me on my math here, cuz I’ve never claimed to be a mathematician. I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. lol

The world population is roughly 7.9 billion people. 4.5 million worldwide have supposedly died from the Covid virus and 211 million have contracted the same.

That would be roughly 2.65% of the world population has contracted the virus and ~2.2% of the 211 million that contracted the virus actually died.

Now subtract out those folks over 75 years of age, then those with diabetes, heart issues, COPD, cancer and numerous other pre-existing conditions. the 4.5 million deaths would likely shrink at least by a conservative 10% I would think.

So these numbers suggest that out of a world population of 7.9 billion, .055% of the world population has died as a result of this virus and of those a certain percent (conservative 10% I deduced above) died having some sort of pre-exiting ailments.

Good grief! Out of the world’s 7.9 billion people, 7.896 billion (~99.5%) have not died of the Covid virus. This hardly seems like a pandemic. Depends of the lens one looks through.


4 posted on 08/22/2021 4:14:09 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: NoLibZone

Wit until the Uranus variant hits! Total lockdowns for months!


5 posted on 08/22/2021 4:14:32 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: servantboy777

Posted this on an alternate thread.


6 posted on 08/22/2021 4:14:49 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: NoLibZone

..and with Diaper Joe hanging out the welcome sign on the border.


7 posted on 08/22/2021 4:14:56 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: NoLibZone

Vewy, vewy scawy.


8 posted on 08/22/2021 4:15:14 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana )
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To: NoLibZone

Vewy, vewy scawy.


9 posted on 08/22/2021 4:15:14 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana )
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To: NoLibZone

I’d like to know the quantity of fear (concern) that adds a positive effect to this whole situation. We may have dialed it up to a deleterious effect already.


10 posted on 08/22/2021 4:15:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: NoLibZone

I’m as worried about this one as all the rest. In other words None.

The real variant will be the dreaded Midterm Variant, scheduled to hit in about a year


11 posted on 08/22/2021 4:17:20 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: All

Delta...the frat from Animal House
Lamba...the frat from Revenge of the Nerds
Why do the keep naming them after 80s teen sex comedies?


12 posted on 08/22/2021 4:17:25 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: NoLibZone
How concerned???

About as much as any other bio weapon…

13 posted on 08/22/2021 4:19:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (FI miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

It is intended that we should be concerned and frightened of each variant that comes along, until November 9, 2022.


14 posted on 08/22/2021 4:19:46 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: NoLibZone

STAY AWAY zones.. Los Angelos Times, anyone who would endorse Gavin Newsome.. you need to be real careful what they say,


15 posted on 08/22/2021 4:20:01 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: NoLibZone
The Tri-Lams are nothing to be afraid of.


16 posted on 08/22/2021 4:20:51 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: NoLibZone

...... Heck .... At this rate ..... By the time we reach the Omega Variant the almighty scientists will be scrambling to find a way to unvaccinate people .....


17 posted on 08/22/2021 4:21:17 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: cyclotic
Yes, along with the deadly vote-by-mail variant.
18 posted on 08/22/2021 4:22:29 PM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: NoLibZone

Let’s start with zero. Though, I have heard that the Lambda variant is fabulous!


19 posted on 08/22/2021 4:22:58 PM PDT by jimfree (My 18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: escapefromboston
Wait till you see the Pi variant...


20 posted on 08/22/2021 4:25:19 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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