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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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To: Angelino97

Oh, BShite! Any more lethal variate kills the host — the ones who got the jab of a the fake vaccine. The only way a more virulent version arises is if the CCP releases it, AGAIN.


41 posted on 11/28/2022 12:31:20 PM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Angelino97

A theory…about what happens when someone with AIDS gets a case of man-made virus with HIV inserts


42 posted on 11/28/2022 12:39:23 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Angelino97

“examining an immunocompromised HIV”

Golly. HIV immunocompromised people have weak immune systems and have trouble fighting off viral infections??? NO WAY!!!


43 posted on 11/28/2022 12:39:31 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Angelino97

Isn’t that the plan?


44 posted on 11/28/2022 12:39:47 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Angelino97

No.


45 posted on 11/28/2022 12:41:34 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Angelino97

Could be. Might. Poised to be.

This is what passes for science today.


46 posted on 11/28/2022 12:53:35 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: absalom01

Yes, exactly! They even managed to get “spawn a doomsday variant” in there. The sky is falling!


47 posted on 11/28/2022 12:54:07 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Angelino97

Daily Mail is always crap. Esp about Russia.


48 posted on 11/28/2022 12:55:45 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: mykroar

Is that worse than “Double Secret Infectious”?


49 posted on 11/28/2022 12:56:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: adorno

Insert picture of fresh bull manure here.


50 posted on 11/28/2022 12:57:38 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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Should call it: Ukicron


51 posted on 11/28/2022 1:03:56 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Colt1851Navy
Insert picture of fresh bull manure here.

Find one yourself, or just say the word we all know.

Meanwhile, is there a hidden meaning behind your post?
52 posted on 11/28/2022 1:18:23 PM PST by adorno
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To: Angelino97

I’m sure they tweaked it that way.


53 posted on 11/28/2022 1:40:09 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Angelino97

That’ll be just in time for the next election. They’ll find a way to blame it all on Trump.


54 posted on 11/28/2022 1:56:44 PM PST by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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To: Angelino97

Got to get the CDC stamp of approval before we can definitely state that it is utter BS ... until then it is merely alleged BS. I trust the science of common sense.


55 posted on 11/28/2022 2:11:07 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Angelino97
Maybe they should have anchored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ih5lMnLy8

56 posted on 11/28/2022 2:12:07 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Angelino97

They are really serious about killing us.


57 posted on 11/28/2022 2:18:57 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: Angelino97

It’s all part of the plan.

First release the version that causes light mortality, but widespread sickness.

Vaccinate the part of the population that is cooperative.

Release the second version that sickens the vaccinated and kills the unvaccinated uncooperative people.


58 posted on 11/28/2022 2:38:20 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Angelino97

Isn’t there a book “Potatoes NOT Prozac?”


59 posted on 11/28/2022 2:46:18 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Angelino97

Before worrying too much, I’d check for NIH grants to labs in South Africa — then get worried.


60 posted on 11/28/2022 4:07:55 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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