California ‘Epsilon’ strain of COVID-19 could evade vaccines, study says

NY Post ^ | 7/7/21

[Tipllub]

A new study has found that COVID-19 vaccines may be somewhat vulnerable to the California “Epsilon” strain of virus.

The variant has three spike protein mutations it uses to weaken current vaccines by up to 70 percent, according to researchers from University of Washington and the San Fransisco-based lab Vir Biotechnology.

The strain’s mutations break down neutralized antibodies, which are produced by vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna and protect against infection, according to the study, published in the journal Science on July 1.

[thecodont]

So much mutation in a year’s time but the origins of this thing that had not ever harmed mankind in tens of thousands of years?

I'm still not clear on this. I understand all of these "vaccines" (most of them, at least the ones in the U.S.) have been created based on a sequencing of the genome of the virus, not an actual isolated copy of the virus itself. The traditional sort of vaccine would have been based on the latter. Has the SARS-CoV-2 virus ever been successfully isolated?

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[Jane Long]

Much like the definition of insane!

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t know my guess is “no” but that this technology/approach comes from years of research attempting to do that.

[rlmorel]

I am keeping that one...

[Political Junkie Too]

There once was a doctor named Fauci
Who's always on TV being grouchy.
You must still wear your mask,
And you can't even ask
If there's a better way than the ouchy.

-PJ

[Oscar in Batangas]

A good limerick! Not too common anymore!

[Political Junkie Too]

we’ll get Alpha Beta, which I understand you can contract at the grocery store.

Can I get green stamps, too?

-PJ

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Snort! Good one.

[rlmorel]

Ahhhh! A limerick aficionado, I see...:)

Very good!

[rlmorel]

Glad you liked it...I can thank one of my old girlfriends who gave me a thick book of bawdy limericks...:)

[rlmorel]

Thank you!

[peggybac]

Thank you!

[Political Junkie Too]

I have many talents... 😏

-PJ

[JD_UTDallas]

Here is one of dozens of research groups that has sequenced the SARS Covid 2 sequence set down to the individual code base. It’s a myth that no one has sequenced it. This bug is easily the most decoded gene set on the whole planet at this point. Hundreds of labs around the world have isolated live virus and decoded it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22905-7

[444Flyer]

Scareiant coercing injections theatre.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Bump

[5th MEB]

Pretty soon we should be in the middle of WORLD WAR Z!

(the book, not the crappy movie)

[NetAddicted]

Bull’s eye.

[NEBO]

well hell then let’s all just go ahead and kill ourselves and get it over with we are doomed as doomed can be no hope no help it is over just shoot me...............

Or get on with life and stop cowering under the bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!