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| 614G CV mutation may have made the pandemic more difficult to stop, new evidence suggests |
| 2020-11-25 |
| [Chicago Tribune] As the coronavirus swept across the world, it picked up random alterations to its genetic sequence. Like meaningless typos in a script, most of those mutations made no difference in how the virus behaved. But one mutation near the beginning of the pandemic did make a difference, multiple new findings suggest, helping the virus spread more easily from person to person and making the pandemic harder to stop. The mutation, known as 614G, was first spotted in eastern China in January and then spread quickly throughout Europe and New York City. Within months, the variant took over much of the world, displacing other variants. For months, scientists have been fiercely debating why. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory argued in May that the variant had probably evolved the ability to infect people more efficiently. Many were skeptical, arguing that the variant may have been simply lucky, appearing more often by chance in large epidemics, like Northern Italy’s, that seeded outbreaks elsewhere. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 why are we still adding this years to last years numbers for totals? Because SHUT UP |
| Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-25 18:21 |
| #3 BTW: Your walking around odds of catching and also of the 2020-2021 C-Virus strain is about 0.00030935672514619884 of 1% . |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2020-11-25 11:19 |
| #2 CDC - 7 DAY TOTALS as of Nov 23rd, 2020 at 10:58 EDST 157,531 New Cases 1,058 New Deaths Current odds of being infected by the C-VIRUS in the USA in the last 7 days = 0.04606169590643275 of 1% Currents odds of dying from the C-VIRUS >>>>IF <<<< infected in the last 7 days = 0.67~ of 1% The latest C-VIRUS mutation sure looks a lot LESS deadly than last years. BTW: Since we are in Season #2 of the C-VIRUS, why are we still adding this years to last years numbers for totals? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2020-11-25 11:11 |
| #1 On the other hand - There is no evidence that a coronavirus with the 614G mutation causes more severe symptoms, kills more people or complicates the development of vaccines. Nor do the findings change the reality that places that quickly and aggressively enacted lockdowns and encouraged measures like social distancing and masks have fared far better than the those that did not. Right, like China 'aggressively enacted lockedowns'. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-11-25 08:14 |