'Deltacron' identified as new COVID variant

Matt Dillon said:
It worked so well the 1st time, they'll be trying this forevermore. Covid got done what "global warming" was trying to-and then some!
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And you don't suspect that the same media that lied to you about everything for years is lying about Ukraine now?

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dukkha said:
Cases have been confirmed in several regions of France and it appears to have been circulating since early January.

In a briefing on 9 March, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the strain had also been found in the Netherlands and Denmark.

There are two confirmed cases in the US with a number of other suspected infections.

And last month, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) revealed one case of Delta x Omicron had been discovered in a person who had contracted both variants.

Scientists says the variant's "backbone" is derived from Delta while its spike - the part of the virus that attaches itself to human cells - is from Omicron.

Combined viruses come about when someone is infected with two variants at the same time, and their cells then replicate together.

Maria van Kerkhove, the COVID technical lead for the WHO, said this mutation was "to be expected, especially with intense circulation of Omicron & Delta".

She added that her team was "tracking and discussing" the variant
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Thank God. Something for politalker to do.
 
Matt Dillon said:
Do you think Putin is not encircling Kiev right now? I look at much more than Western media, by the way.. Not quite daily, but almost..
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Maybe I wasn't clear enough. It looks to me as if you gobble down everything the media tells you (and their source is usually the Ukrainians) and believe it's gospel true.
 
dukkha said:
Delta variant had more severe effects on those who caught it, while Omicron was more infectious. This may cause concern over a strain combined from both.

However, scientists stress there is now substantial immunity in the human population against both variants and there is no reason to think this will pose a danger to vaccines.

Dr William Lee, chief science officer at Helix, a California based lab that sequences COVID-19 samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told USA Today: "The fact that there is not that much of it, that even the two cases we saw were different, suggests that it's probably not going to elevate to a variant of concern level."
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...t-spreading-and-should-we-be-worried-12563165
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Little early to be that sure, isn't it?
 
dukkha said:
Delta variant had more severe effects on those who caught it, while Omicron was more infectious. This may cause concern over a strain combined from both.

However, scientists stress there is now substantial immunity in the human population against both variants and there is no reason to think this will pose a danger to vaccines.

Dr William Lee, chief science officer at Helix, a California based lab that sequences COVID-19 samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told USA Today: "The fact that there is not that much of it, that even the two cases we saw were different, suggests that it's probably not going to elevate to a variant of concern level."
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...t-spreading-and-should-we-be-worried-12563165
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Nordberg said:
Little early to be that sure, isn't it?
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when did we update our vaxxes from the original alpha? Oh that's right we NEVER DID

so dont look to those for much help if it does become more virulent.
But acquired immunity should take care of it if one is in good health
even as the mutations distance from the vaxx
 
Legion said:
When you have more variants to drop but everyone's talking about Ukraine
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My guess is we have temporary herd immunity right now. It will fade, and a wave will his Florida this summer. An additional wave will hit the rest of the country around December or January. Right now, seems fairly clear for a few months.

The new variant will wait. One thing about viruses, they are good at out waiting us.
 
Salty Walty said:
My guess is we have temporary herd immunity right now. It will fade, and a wave will his Florida this summer. An additional wave will hit the rest of the country around December or January. Right now, seems fairly clear for a few months. The new variant will wait. One thing about viruses, they are good at out waiting us.
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Think so?
 
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