Posted on 01/10/2022 1:27:59 PM PST by conservative98
Global health experts are casting doubts over reports of a new possible Covid-19 mutation that appeared to be a combination of both the delta and omicron variants, dubbed as “deltacron,” saying it’s more likely that the “strain” is the result of a lab processing error.
At the weekend it was reported that a researcher in Cyprus had discovered the potential new variant. Bloomberg News said Saturday that Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, had called the strain “deltacron,” because of its omicron-like genetic signatures within the delta genomes.
Kostrikis and his team said they had found 25 cases of the mutation, with the report adding that at the time it was too early to tell whether there were more cases of the apparent new strain or what impact it could have. Bloomberg reported that the findings had been sent to Gisaid, an international database that tracks changes in the virus, on Jan. 7.
Deltacron ‘not real’
Some experts have since cast doubt over the findings, with one World Health Organization official tweeting Sunday that “deltacron,” which was trending on the social media platform on the weekend, is “not real” and “is likely due to sequencing artifact,” a variation introduced by a nonbiological process.
WHO Covid expert Dr. Krutika Kuppalli said on Twitter that, in this case, there was likely to have been a “lab contamination of Omicron fragments in a Delta specimen.”
In another tweet, she noted wryly, “Let’s not merge of names of infectious diseases and leave it to celebrity couples”
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It’s small alphadeltameaslescron pox that worries me.
Notice how quickly those disappeared from the news......exactly what the Murder Hornets would want. /s
What a surprise.......
AKA: a lie
We suffer from the new variant “Demacron,” which seems only to attack Democrats resident in red states.
What about the SCIENCE? Are they saying SCIENCE is wrong?
“It’s small alphadeltameaslescron pox that worries me.”
The Midterm Variant worries me!
Me too! Look for the next "deadly variant" to surface around mid to late August. Just in time to determine that it will be "too dangerous" for people to vote in person, so, in "an abundance of caution", the mid term election will be conducted primarily by mail-in ballots.
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