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New South African COVID-19 strain is the most mutated one: report
NY Post ^ | 08/30/2021 | Yaron Steinbach

Posted on 08/30/2021 8:24:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations – and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report.

The C.1.2 strain has been linked to “increased transmissibility” and is said to have mutated the most from the original virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Mirror reported.

The strain has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, almost double the global mutation rate seen in any other existing Variant of Concern, or VOC, according to experts at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

The number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa have risen from 0.2 percent in May to 1.6 percent in June and 2 percent in July, according to scientists, who also have found 14 mutations in nearly 50 percent of the variants that had a C.1.2 sequence.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; mutated; southafrican; strain
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Will there be a North Korea strain??? Asking for a friend.
1 posted on 08/30/2021 8:24:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Tau chi omega coming right up. There’s a batch on the stove as we type. Lucky for us it ain’t “THE PLAGUE”. “Bring out your dead!”


2 posted on 08/30/2021 8:26:28 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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...according to experts at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

I bet these guys were something before electricity.

3 posted on 08/30/2021 8:26:43 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IVERMECTIN shields the receptor against EVERY new, mutated, or bio-engineered spike protein.

You don’t need any more boosters, or “ vaccines “.


4 posted on 08/30/2021 8:27:07 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

5 posted on 08/30/2021 8:27:23 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: rktman

I want a tri Lambda variant and an Omega Mu variant.
Then I can die happy...


6 posted on 08/30/2021 8:28:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well done, Fauci.
Your pet research project is showing promise.


7 posted on 08/30/2021 8:30:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: BrexitBen

If folks take one thousand vaccines they should be good to go!


8 posted on 08/30/2021 8:32:14 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It sounds not only Hugh but HUGH AND SERIES!!!


9 posted on 08/30/2021 8:32:49 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: EEGator

Sorry, next up is the Mekong Delta variant.


10 posted on 08/30/2021 8:33:05 AM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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I’ll keep hoping...


11 posted on 08/30/2021 8:35:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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I don’t get the sneering. Of course the virus will mutate. It’s not a process of life (since the virus is not alive). It’s a process of statistics.

People take a breath of the original artificially created virus particles and it floats around inside the lungs until it bumps into a lung cell, whose receptors ensnare it. Normal breathing rubs it against the cell membrane and it is pushed inside, where its RNA strand replaces the cell’s. The cell function changes to virus production, not oxygen transfer.

Since the virus particle that ensnares best gets replicated more, you soon have a new strain. Might as well label it something. Greek letters are traditional.

It doesn’t have to do anything different to have faster transmission also equal more effective killing. Speed is the issue. Not function. Get enough lung cells infected early and arrival of vax primed antibodies, or natural antibodies from prior infection, won’t matter. They take days to get produced and deployed. It can be far too late if the strain you have is faster than Delta.

It soon will be.


12 posted on 08/30/2021 8:36:54 AM PDT by Owen
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Mutation...it's what viruses do!


13 posted on 08/30/2021 8:37:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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At this rate, you may soon get your wish. Can we start shopping which variant we want? Such BS! 99+% survivability. Higher than CONvid vax efficacy numbers.


14 posted on 08/30/2021 8:37:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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This time we’re all gonna die for sure! We mean it!!!


15 posted on 08/30/2021 8:38:22 AM PDT 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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My brother and his friend’s husband in a third world country were both completely cured after only two to three days using Ivermectin. She didn’t get it because she takes a couple a month for preventative purposes.

She mailed it to my brother in the US. She gets it from the US in bottles labelled, “For export only.”

We are being lied to on so many levels it’s hard to keep track.


16 posted on 08/30/2021 8:40:20 AM PDT 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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A secret known to more than 1 person is not a secret.

How many people do you suppose are in on this conspiracy to kill millions of people? How did they all get persuaded this is a good thing and none of them brought forth documented evidence. Maybe meeting minutes . . . where the mission statement of the conspiracy informs its members of this intent to kill?

Why is this secret known to 1000s still secret?


17 posted on 08/30/2021 8:45:05 AM PDT by Owen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

C.v 3.2.1....


18 posted on 08/30/2021 8:46:32 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Talk about Jumping the Shark! People are beginning to tune this sh*t out!


19 posted on 08/30/2021 8:48:59 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Something new to scare us when delta has passed. We’ll be told to get vaxxed, even though the vax doesn’t block the new Zulu strain. (South Africa).


20 posted on 08/30/2021 8:53:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Trump: Make America Great Again. biden: Make Taliban Great Again. (Click on my user name))
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