This board still apparently has too many fruits on it that are terrified of this thing :-)
I would advise the many thousands of people from free republic that are in Vietnam to be careful.
maybe I’m not being fair and when I’m old I will be very afraid of many things too
Send in “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, he can actually go there this time.
This theory is fascinating. It prompted me to try to figure out what measles shot i got. Of course..its not the right one. Going to see if my insurance will cover the right one. Interesting that iran didnt do the two shot version
You’re spreading lies. You ought to be zotted. This is Free Republic not Fear Republic.
New strain?! Yeah, sure. This article is silly.
American companies would rather buy from Vietnamese than from Chinese. Maybe China knows that... and is doing their usual.
Yes. It’s been spreading faster in the U.S., too.
New Covid-19 mutation ‘helping outbreaks spread faster around the world’
The Telegraph
22 July 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/22/infectious-covid-19-mutation-dominant-globally-fueling-faster/
Masks in large stores are helping, though. Missouri has a relatively polite population (more police, stricter laws, etc.), so I’ve been watching that State.
After the big stores started requiring customers to wear masks on the 20th of last month, daily cases increased for ten days: five days for the infected to become ill and five days for those who lived and socialized with them to become ill. The following three days after that, cases decreased steeply and rapidly to about one-quarter the number at the end of the ten days.
Could this be the same strain that hit the US east coast in March via Europe? I had heard quite some time ago that we have two strains. One that arrived in USA via Europe (I think it was this one which was more deadly) and the other strain was the one that first appeared in Washington State and likely more directly from Asia.
Another question I have is, could the new infections in the southwest and west coast be the east coast strain finally making it to the western region of the US?
Here’s more info on the recent Vietnam spike:
“Vietnamese scientists have said the strain of the coronavirus found there was more infectious than the earlier strain, and this latest strain had also been previously detected in Bangladesh, Britain and Ireland.
The government has not officially linked the new cases to illegal immigration, but Phuc has ordered police to strengthen a crackdown on illegal entries.
State media on Sunday said police in Danang had arrested a 42-year-old Chinese man suspected of heading a criminal group smuggling people across the border from China.”