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Next major COVID variant IS poised to be more deadly, doctors warn after studying patient who harbored Omicron for six months
Daily Mail ^ | November 28, 2022 | Cassidy Morrison

Posted on 11/28/2022 11:25:58 AM PST by Angelino97

The next Covid variant to emerge is poised to be more severe than the mild strains that are currently world-dominant, according to a new study. 

The ultra-infectious Omicron strain emerged almost exactly a year ago and its mutated spinoffs have risen to the top in virtually every country in the world.

They are far milder than the older versions of the virus and many researchers believed they represented a kind of end game for Covid’s evolution, which like many viruses before it, mutate to be more mild so they can spread more easily. 

But researchers in South Africa say the virus still has the potential to get deadlier after examining an immunocompromised HIV patient who harbored the virus for half a year.

Over time, the virus evolved to cause more cell death and cell fusion, leading to inflammation in the lungs. 

These effects more closely resembled those of the ancestral Covid strain than the Omicron strain, according to Alex Sigal, leader of the study. 

The patient is one of the longest known sufferers of Omicron, which itself is widely believed to have evolved in someone with a severely weakened immune system.

Immunocompromised people cannot adequately clear out infection, which allows the virus to continually replicate and mutate in their body over time, before spreading to others with its new alterations.

Still, the findings from South Africa represent just one theory about the future of Covid's spread and protection gained through vaccination and prior infection puts the US - and world - in a stronger position to beat back another deadly surge. 

The finding comes amid warnings that China's unrelenting Covid outbreak could spawn a doomsday variant which has the potential to send the world back to square one in its fight against the virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; failedislandnation; morebritishbull; omicron; sodoffwankers
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1 posted on 11/28/2022 11:25:58 AM PST by Angelino97
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Covid research is now, guesswork.


2 posted on 11/28/2022 11:28:00 AM PST by adorno
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“But researchers in South Africa say the virus still has the potential”

potential - translation: possible with equal parts of “not sure”.


3 posted on 11/28/2022 11:30:39 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Angelino97

Next major COVID variant IS poised to be more deadly.


It looks like some of these folks could learn from a rereading of the story of the boy who cried wolf.


4 posted on 11/28/2022 11:30:56 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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The Fascists’ are rampant with the incessant fearmongering.


5 posted on 11/28/2022 11:30:57 AM PST by cranked
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To: adorno

Fauci & his cohorts should be tried & hung—on live TV.


6 posted on 11/28/2022 11:31:22 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Angelino97

Next major COVID variant IS poised to be more deadly.


Looks like they continue working on it in the lab until they get it right! 🤣


7 posted on 11/28/2022 11:31:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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**** your face! (not you Angelino97)


8 posted on 11/28/2022 11:31:44 AM PST by EEGator
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so one HIV patient got worse so they conclude the strain is becoming more potent. this is nothing more than a scare tactic piece of garbage.


9 posted on 11/28/2022 11:31:55 AM PST by Jonny7797
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Sensational tabloids gonna sensationalize. DM is no exception.


10 posted on 11/28/2022 11:32:06 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: ridesthemiles

I totally disagree. Fauxi et all should be hanged! lol


11 posted on 11/28/2022 11:34:33 AM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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immunocompromised HIV patient who harbored the virus for half a year... Immunocompromised people cannot adequately clear out infection, which allows the virus to continually replicate and mutate in their body over time, before spreading to others with its new alterations.

Maybe, instead of locking down normal people, they should put fags in camps.

12 posted on 11/28/2022 11:35:33 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Its Daily Mail - is Putin harboring Omicron?


13 posted on 11/28/2022 11:38:01 AM PST by PGR88
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Next major BULLSHIT variant

More like.

14 posted on 11/28/2022 11:39:25 AM PST by tomkat
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That is why we science equivocators basking in natural immunity are the Promethean gods atop Mt Olympus decimating the enemy covid with herd immunity thunderbolts and you 90 pound weakling vaxheads, led by that 80 pound weakling girlyman, Fauci, hide in your caves starving afraid to venture out to the tofu store.


15 posted on 11/28/2022 11:39:55 AM PST by chuckee
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That is why we science equivocators basking in natural immunity are the Promethean gods atop Mt Olympus decimating the enemy covid with herd immunity thunderbolts and you 90 pound weakling vaxheads, led by that 80 pound weakling girlyman, Fauci, hide in your caves starving afraid to venture out to the tofu store.


16 posted on 11/28/2022 11:39:55 AM PST by chuckee
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Fear porn


17 posted on 11/28/2022 11:41:03 AM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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This is my worried face...


18 posted on 11/28/2022 11:42:58 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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Are these the same shills who predicted massive hurricanes, melting ice caps, cannibalism, whatnot from global warming?

Can you order shills from a single website, or does each scam have its own?


19 posted on 11/28/2022 11:43:17 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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On my way to say——🔬🤔😵🚫😷💉🐎💩!


20 posted on 11/28/2022 11:46:49 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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