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.
Dear both doctors, it is virii. Learn it, and live it. We are adults and can handle it. Sheesh.
Next they will be tracking the Bidencrom variant…after that the Psaki-ginger variant.
To that I agree!
The lockdowns have been far more damaging.
The new and improved
GODZILLA!!!! :)
Like I said before, I got COVID in December and it was JUST BRUTAL.
5 of the most miserable weeks (Healthwise) of my life.
And then I got better.
I NEVER felt like my life was in danger.
I’m very overweight, which is why I got hit so hard, I’m thinking.
I only know of one death from it PERSONALLY. My uncle Jimmy, and he was 92.
Ironically, he got the vaccine and booster. Died from COVID Pneumonia.
So out of maybe 40 people I know who got the virus, one very frail 92 year old man died.
still a loss and it sucked.
But NOTHING to destroy a country’s finances over.
Deltacron? Those ‘researchers’ are gonna have to move fast to spread the deadly Republicron virus by this November ... lots of greek letters between ‘D’ and ‘R’ ...
(/sarc)
Of course they are, the next one will be Omidelta, then some other stupid combination of made-up names.
This won’t end ‘til someone goes to jail, or preferably, hangs from a lamppost.
“Deltacron”
Long ago, that was the name of the alternator on my car.
I’m worried about dominionacron, stuffedballotacron, Che we ga Ron this fall.
Are these variants coming from the vaccine or the new bio weapons being released by bloody Xi, biden and pooty .
Mass murdering demons
https://rumble.com/vwd2iv-requiem-for-ukraine-and-the-world.html
The psycho vaxxed are building up supplies of facemasks, reinforcing their 6’ standoff sticks, buying gallons of sanitizer and doing 1lb bicep curls for their next injection.
China’s locking down manufacturing districts.... Coincidence? Nope...
WHO are you? Who who, who who who? (Sung to the song of Who)
Maybe they think we forgot they tried to scare us with this before Omicron got its real start - and now that Omicron is about gone, they just dusted off an old slant to scare you...
I wish I had a t-shirt like that
too perfect
The “midterm” variant, to make us vote by mail?
The only one i know who died from Covid was 85 and had lung problems to begin with, had been a heavy smoker earlier in life.
Not doubt was vented in the hospital, but I cannot prove it. With the condition of his lungs, it would not surprise me.
I had Covid. It was rough for two weeks then I recovered. Took me a while to get my wind back. I was short of breath for several months, but it was a time when we were in the process of moving so I was forced to push through instead of babying myself. Whether that helped or not, I don’t know.
To my knowledge, you are correct. Viruses do not “mutate” into other viruses unless somehow altered.
More than meets the eye.
Which Chinese lab whipped that one up?
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