Posted on 03/15/2022 9:40:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scientists are learning more about a hybrid variant of COVID-19 that has been detected called “deltacron.”
Deltacron was first reported early this year, when it was thought to be a co-infection of the omicron and delta coronavirus variants (meaning people were possibly infected with two variants at once). Now, researchers believe it’s a single, hybrid variant that combines genes from both delta and omicron.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization decided to start tracking deltacron, but is not yet calling it a variant of concern.
“It’s got features of omicron and features of delta,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of California. He added the name of the hybrid variant could change in the future.
“It sounds pretty ominous if you take the worst aspects of delta, which was a more serious illness, and you combine it with the worst aspects of omicron which is very transmissible, then you have something that sounds pretty scary,” Swartzberg said. “There is absolutely no evidence that this new recombinant virus has those qualities at all.”
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF, said both those variants were likely involved in creating this new one.
“At some point, there [are] two circulating variants, so one person can actually catch two variants at one time and the two variants can actually invade the same cell, and then they can have children,” he explained. In this case, that virus “child” would be deltacron.
Deltacron has been detected in the United States, but at this point, it is not a major concern. So far, only a handful of cases have been confirmed. Plus, your body may already be primed to fight off this new variant.
“So far it seems like the outside of deltacron is looking almost exactly like omicron,” Chin-Hong said.
Both doctors were not surprised or alarmed to see the coronavirus mutating again.
“It’s a normal part of viruses, it happens all the time. But we never really know how it plays out in the field of life until it gets out into the community,” Chin-Hong said.
The infectious disease specialists did emphasize that the best way to protect yourself from this variant, or any future variants, is to get fully up to date on your COVID-19 vaccinations.
Delta and Omicron had a baby!!
It is all a transparent sham.
Forget Covid. I’m still recovering from the lockdown. Nothing in my life has been so damaging to my overall fitness and health.
Thanks for the warning, Karen.
Both doctors were not surprised or alarmed to see the coronavirus mutating again. “It’s a normal part of viruses, it happens all the time.
I’m sure it does……..at Wuhan…….
And recycled from a week or two ago.
The lockdowns have done far more damage to my health than multiple exposures to covid - with no infection due to 100% natural immunity - have done. I'm now cutting back on salt and alcohol. I've also returned to the gym for high intensity weight training. I've always heard bulk up, then cut down. We'll see...
Wait until mid terms are done. Zetameltacron will run rampant.
Eatmyballsocron
Optimus Prime
Yeah.. those were bad. Hope we never see anything like that again.
Piss off you One world government creeps!
Oh jeeze, oh no. It puts the mask on the skin or it gets the scythe again.
Owen, what are we gonna do?
F off.
Yeah, salt is pretty nasty. I’ve been cutting back too because all my numbers are wrong.
Meh.
Yeah. Or at least for another 100 years.
For my birthday, my son-in-law gave me a T-shirt that says; “The final variant is communism”.
“…both those variants were likely involved in creating this new one.”
Where was Faucistein during the creation?
It’s cold and flu season.
DeltaYawn
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