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DoogieMcDoogerson
DoogieMcDoogerson Member Posts: 2,525
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/mutant-coronavirus-united-kingdom-sets-alarms-its-importance-remains-unclear

Some concerning shit in here. Rapid mutation unexpected. @oregonblitzkrieg - viral genetic engineering in the works?

Researchers have watched SARS-CoV-2 evolve in real time more closely than any other virus in history. So far, it has accumulated mutations at a rate of about one to two changes per month. That means many of the genomes sequenced today differ at about 20 points from the earliest genomes sequenced in China in January, but many variants with fewer changes are also circulating. “Because we have very dense surveillance of genomes, you can almost see every step,” Loman says.

But scientists have never seen the virus acquire more than a dozen mutations seemingly at once. They think it happened during a long infection of a single patient that allowed SARS-CoV-2 to go through an extended period of fast evolution, with multiple variants competing for advantage.

In a press conference on Saturday, Chief Science Adviser Patrick Vallance said B.1.1.7, which first appeared in a virus isolated on 20 September, accounted for about 26% of cases in mid-November. “By the week commencing the ninth of December, these figures were much higher,” he said. “So, in London, over 60% of all the cases were the new variant.” Johnson added that the slew of mutations may have increased the virus’ transmissibility by 70%.
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  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    edited December 2020
    If true, will the Manditory vaccines created for asymptotic Covid work for Mutant Deadly Covid?

    or, is it just like the flu where most of the time, the shot is worthless?
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Well, we Were told back in 2017 when the pandemic was being planned that Covid -19 was just a trial run for Super-Covid in 2021
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,260 Founders Club

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/mutant-coronavirus-united-kingdom-sets-alarms-its-importance-remains-unclear

    Some concerning shit in here. Rapid mutation unexpected. @oregonblitzkrieg - viral genetic engineering in the works?

    Researchers have watched SARS-CoV-2 evolve in real time more closely than any other virus in history. So far, it has accumulated mutations at a rate of about one to two changes per month. That means many of the genomes sequenced today differ at about 20 points from the earliest genomes sequenced in China in January, but many variants with fewer changes are also circulating. “Because we have very dense surveillance of genomes, you can almost see every step,” Loman says.

    But scientists have never seen the virus acquire more than a dozen mutations seemingly at once. They think it happened during a long infection of a single patient that allowed SARS-CoV-2 to go through an extended period of fast evolution, with multiple variants competing for advantage.

    In a press conference on Saturday, Chief Science Adviser Patrick Vallance said B.1.1.7, which first appeared in a virus isolated on 20 September, accounted for about 26% of cases in mid-November. “By the week commencing the ninth of December, these figures were much higher,” he said. “So, in London, over 60% of all the cases were the new variant.” Johnson added that the slew of mutations may have increased the virus’ transmissibility by 70%.

    Most viruses go through this mutation where they get more contagious but weaker. I’m sure we’ll hear about the cases, but not the deaths just like always.
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,248 Founders Club
    Bob_C said:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/mutant-coronavirus-united-kingdom-sets-alarms-its-importance-remains-unclear

    Some concerning shit in here. Rapid mutation unexpected. @oregonblitzkrieg - viral genetic engineering in the works?

    Researchers have watched SARS-CoV-2 evolve in real time more closely than any other virus in history. So far, it has accumulated mutations at a rate of about one to two changes per month. That means many of the genomes sequenced today differ at about 20 points from the earliest genomes sequenced in China in January, but many variants with fewer changes are also circulating. “Because we have very dense surveillance of genomes, you can almost see every step,” Loman says.

    But scientists have never seen the virus acquire more than a dozen mutations seemingly at once. They think it happened during a long infection of a single patient that allowed SARS-CoV-2 to go through an extended period of fast evolution, with multiple variants competing for advantage.

    In a press conference on Saturday, Chief Science Adviser Patrick Vallance said B.1.1.7, which first appeared in a virus isolated on 20 September, accounted for about 26% of cases in mid-November. “By the week commencing the ninth of December, these figures were much higher,” he said. “So, in London, over 60% of all the cases were the new variant.” Johnson added that the slew of mutations may have increased the virus’ transmissibility by 70%.

    Most viruses go through this mutation where they get more contagious but weaker. I’m sure we’ll hear about the cases, but not the deaths just like always.
    Exactly! But why is nobody asking the question WHY anymore? This fucking flu is not a great killer of people but now our federal government is running TV adds about how this is going to kill you. Mother fucker what the fuck is wrong with people today? Why isn't our government running adds telling us not to get into a car or a shower for fuck's sake? Old people fucking die people. Some healthy, young people die inexplicably from all kinds of things including the fucking flu every fucking year. Wake the fuck up you dipshit Coronobros or don't it's hard to think and act for youself.