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Fears arise that Lambda COVID-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines
New York Post ^ | 07.06.21 | Freedom56v2

Posted on 07/05/2021 7:46:20 PM PDT by Freedom56v2

Scientists fear that a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant that is ravaging Peru may be resistant to vaccines.

The Lambda mutation, or C.37, appears to have emerged in Peru last August — and is now being blamed for the country having the highest pandemic death rate in the world.

The concerning strain has since spread to around 30 countries, mostly in Latin America — but also as far as the UK, which has recorded at least eight cases, according to government figures.

There are no known cases of the Lambda strain in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Peru, Lambda has accounted for 81 percent of new infections tested for variants since April, according to the World Health Organization.

The South American nation currently has by far the highest mortality rate in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

There, nearly 10 percent of those recorded as being infected end up dying — with the death rate of nearly 600 for every 100,000 citizens almost double that of the next nation, Hungary, the data shows. The US is 21st with just under 185 deaths per 100,000.

“Our data show for the first time that mutations present in the spike protein of the Lambda variant confer escape to neutralizing antibodies and increased infectivity,” wrote the researchers from the University of Chile in Santiago.

That could explain why it has been able to take hold despite Chile “undergoing a massive vaccination program,” the study warned.

“Considering that this variant has rapidly spread in Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina, we believe that Lambda has a considerable potential to become a variant of concern,” they concluded in the preprint paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed.

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To: Steely Tom

With Covid BS’s stunning success in helping to steal the ‘20 election, you knew the regime was planning on some similar emergency to derail the congressional elections of ‘22. Will we just have a reprise of Covid 19? How brazen will the regime be when stealing solidly red congressional districts next year? Will they go all in with corrupt ballots and counting again. The Uniparty election corruption is snowballing. We’ve gone from outright theft of Congress in ‘18, via Orange County ballot harvesting, to the laughably ham handed shenanigans to steal all three branches in ‘20.


41 posted on 07/05/2021 8:29:01 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Freedom56v2

Lambda, Delta....I don’t give a Iota!


42 posted on 07/05/2021 8:29:45 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Freedom56v2
ahhh yes, the Peruvian strain of the NOT-ChinaFlu...
43 posted on 07/05/2021 8:33:14 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Kriggerel

“Big hitter, the Llama”


44 posted on 07/05/2021 8:35:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Freedom56v2

All the variants are resistant to the vaccines, none confer any kind of immunity.


45 posted on 07/05/2021 8:35:27 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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To: Freedom56v2

Seems like this thing was engineered to spread and to mutate to overcome counter measures?


46 posted on 07/05/2021 8:37:32 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: ThunderSleeps

The bride of COVID 19


47 posted on 07/05/2021 8:37:43 PM PDT by oldbrowser ( )
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To: Steely Tom

Of course not /Sarc :(


48 posted on 07/05/2021 8:38:19 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: palmer

So what do you think the increased deaths are caused by?


49 posted on 07/05/2021 8:39:22 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: hardspunned

50 posted on 07/05/2021 8:40:09 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: SaveFerris

Oh good a new variant!
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Get your Ivermectin here...
If I could invest in Ivermectin, I would...


51 posted on 07/05/2021 8:40:23 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: AFB-XYZ
What happened to the letters between Delta and Lambda?

I came in here to find out, thinking it was an article from the Babylon Bee.

52 posted on 07/05/2021 8:40:44 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Watch out for Delta Lambda Omega.


53 posted on 07/05/2021 8:41:02 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: immadashell

Let’s just keep the hysteria going! Get Fauxi on TV again and again and again and a…
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So are you saying it is wrong to post this as news?

Ah ignorance is bliss :)


54 posted on 07/05/2021 8:41:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: DannyTN

Delta Tau Chi.

55 posted on 07/05/2021 8:42:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: saintgermaine

This is the ticket!

Thank you for posting...


56 posted on 07/05/2021 8:43:10 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: Steely Tom

Peru Flu

And you can’t call “Delta” India Strain of Covid.


57 posted on 07/05/2021 8:43:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: TTFX

Is China strategically releasing new variants in different parts of the world ? One thing is for sure. China is not going to make the mistake again of not covering their tracks like with the original Covid.

There is no vaccine for the common cold. It mutated a lot. So does this virus.
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So we build up our immune systems...get in shape and be careful around sick people like a very wicked flu—keeping in mind this is a bio-engineered flu that may require extra precautions....


58 posted on 07/05/2021 8:45:24 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: skimbell

What the hell?
What happened to the Delta strain?
I thought that we were all going to die from Delta
I can’t just shift from Delta to this Lagoona one that fast.
You just can’t get properly scared chitless when the strains change this fast.
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Delta is old news/sarc...
Nope...not all gonna die...Delta was/is less lethal...
Can’t shift? Better learn to be nibble as news cycle is lightening fast...
Not scared Chitless? Your choice, but maybe you use this information to make smart decisions :)

I get NY Post alerts, and this came in over the transom, so I
figured I should post it.

Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power.


59 posted on 07/05/2021 8:49:14 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: 2banana

I double dog Lambda Delta dare you..

LOL I see your double dog Lambda Delta and raise you a Zeta Tau ;)


60 posted on 07/05/2021 8:52:47 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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