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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; mutated; southafrican; strain
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

HUGH AND SERIES!!!

Ah the good old days at FR.


21 posted on 08/30/2021 8:53:59 AM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

wonder why afgonistan doesn’t have a kung flu problem...


22 posted on 08/30/2021 9:02:07 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: I want the USA back

Vaccinations are an obedience test—it makes absolutely no difference to the slave masters what is in them.


23 posted on 08/30/2021 9:03:23 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

Coronaviruses are prolific mutators.

Most of the mutations are benign or much less virulent than the parent virus.

Because of this, there has never been a successful vaccine for them. This MRNA thing is a stop gap measure at best. We will be fighting versions of this thing for years.


24 posted on 08/30/2021 9:05:06 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: cgbg

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

BUT ONLY IF they wear three masks at all times, and never socialize, ever. (But of course xbama and ilk can because as peaking said, “they are responsible adults, and know what they are doing” (apparently noone else can know what they are doing, only the elite can I guess)


25 posted on 08/30/2021 9:11:56 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: BrexitBen

Not necessarily. I contracted the Delta variant last week despite being fully vaccinated with Moderna and taking ivermectin prophylactically for months...


26 posted on 08/30/2021 9:47:24 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will it be called the Epsilon or Zeta strain of the virus?


27 posted on 08/30/2021 10:28:39 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: dinodino

Maybe Ivermectin doesn’t interact with the magic vaccines very well.

Obesity, vitamin D deficiency, and diabetes, also thrive on the virus, and it’s variants.

Also, taking zinc in conjunction with Ivermectin is recommended.

I didn’t take ivermectin until the first onset of symptoms. I was sick for 24 hours, and then I felt terrific.


28 posted on 08/30/2021 11:16:19 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

29 posted on 08/30/2021 11:54:32 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: BrexitBen

I am very fit, far from obese, and have no preexisting conditions. I also spend a great deal of time in the sun, so I’m not vitamin D-deficient.


30 posted on 08/30/2021 12:34:24 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: I want the USA back

New cases here are dropping off a cliff. I wonder if this is exactly what the Brits experienced, larges increases and then over in a month: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases


31 posted on 08/30/2021 12:35:16 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Related:

https://www.zububrothers.com/2021/08/31/scientists-warn-about-new-hyper-infectious-south-african-variant/

“Scientists Warn About New Hyper-Infectious South African Variant”

Scientists in South Africa have identified a new variant that “has all of the signatures of immune escape” and very well could be the source of the next variant-driven wave of COVID cases around the world.

The variant, known a C.1.2 – it isn’t important enough yet to deserve a Greek-letter shorthand – was first identified in May in the provinces of Mpumalanga and Gauteng, where Johannesburg and SA’s capital, Pretoria, are located. As of Aug. 13, the variant has been found in six of South Africa’s nine provinces as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritius, Portugal and Switzerland. Even New Zealand has reported a case of the variant in its most recent outbreak


32 posted on 08/31/2021 6:43:02 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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