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Expect more worrisome variants after omicron, scientists say
The Associated Press ^ | January 15, 2022 | By LAURA UNGAR

Posted on 01/15/2022 9:46:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Get ready to learn more Greek letters. Scientists warn that omicron’s whirlwind advance practically ensures it won’t be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.

Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and omicron has an edge over its predecessors: It spreads way faster despite emerging on a planet with a stronger patchwork of immunity from vaccines and prior illness.

That means more people in whom the virus can further evolve. Experts don’t know what the next variants will look like or how they might shape the pandemic, but they say there’s no guarantee the sequels of omicron will cause milder illness or that existing vaccines will work against them.

“The faster omicron spreads, the more opportunities there are for mutation, potentially leading to more variants,” Leonardo Martinez, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Boston University, said.

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


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KEYWORDS: ccp; china; fearporn; journalism; media; panic; press; virus; wuhan
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To: IrishBrigade

Fauci and Gates aren’t female. GEEZ


21 posted on 01/15/2022 10:23:35 AM PST by Aria
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To: Rennes Templar

Boosters for what, exactly? As the COVID-19 Wuhan virus variants continue to mutate, they become ever more attenuated, and no long-term threat to the general population. Or so has happened in just about every type of variation in virus classification that has come along.

And every coronavirus has the same Achille’s heel. All are vulnerable to the presence of zinc ion and some Zn++ ionophore that ends up STOPPING the coronavirus from replicating.


22 posted on 01/15/2022 10:26:38 AM PST by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am so done with this lying crap.


23 posted on 01/15/2022 10:31:08 AM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Aria

‘Fauci and Gates aren’t female. GEEZ’

and who are Fauci’s greatest supporters in the general population, men or women...?

who is more likely to do something a daddy figure tells them to do, men or women...?

who is more timid and desirous of a social support structure to make life easier, men or women...?

who is more likely to vote in blocks, and thus more attractive to scheming politicians pushing social agendas, men or women...

who drives around in vehicles with face diapers over their mugs, men or women...?

who is more likely to act freely as individuals, willing to take inititiative against long odds and uncertain chances, men or women...?


24 posted on 01/15/2022 10:37:52 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All part of the continuing plan to convert the world to communism.


25 posted on 01/15/2022 10:40:45 AM PST by Revel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is so they have something ready to scare us! The leftist establishment doesn’t plan to let go. “Little O” is a cold. It’s not killing a lot of people (and that fact is deliberately not put on the evening news.)

The public is tired of the nonsense and is beginning to ignore the official propaganda. Can’t have that! They want a ready-made crisis waiting in the wings.

My prediction: “Little O” will begin to fade in 1-2 weeks. (Dr John Campbell said it, not me). We will have a very nice summer, but the faucis and the leftist establishment won’t. Come the fall, (my opinion) the numbers will go up as they always do, and there will be a resumption of the fear/panic/lockdowns/masks/jabs/hysteria/insanity.


26 posted on 01/15/2022 10:53:43 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Do you have any stats to back this up?

Personally, as a woman, I’ve always been extremely cautious about who to trust since I’m smaller and weaker then men. This caution has carried over into most areas. A smart woman should be able to size up a situation since we are more vulnerable.

But yeah....there are a lot of stupid woman out there these days....along with males.


27 posted on 01/15/2022 11:03:01 AM PST by Aria
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To: Fury

The only way to shut down the virus is to shut down the world’s Leftist governments.

Well, used to be just “Leftist.” They’ve moved into Nazi territory.


28 posted on 01/15/2022 11:04:06 AM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Scientists are a bit late. Of course there’s going to be more and more and more and more.


29 posted on 01/15/2022 11:26:25 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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30 posted on 01/15/2022 5:19:02 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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