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2023-08-19 Science & Technology

New ‘very different' COVID-19 variant detected in Israel, Denmark and US

[Times of IS] A new COVID variant detected in Israel is being tracked by health authorities worldwide. The variant, sequenced in Israel and Denmark in late July, has now also appeared in Michigan in the United States.
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The World Health Organization SARS-CoV-2 virus evolution advisory group has designated the novel variant, known as BA.2.86, as a variant under monitoring (VUM) due to its many mutations. The US Centers for Disease Control is also monitoring it.

"No one knows about its virulence or how transmissible it is," said Prof. Ronit Calderon-Margalit, director of the School of Public Health at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center.

spike proteins appear in red on the virus model. (AFP/ National Institutes of Health)
A new COVID variant detected in Israel is being tracked by health authorities worldwide. The variant, sequenced in Israel and Denmark in late July, has now also appeared in Michigan in the United States.

The World Health Organization SARS-CoV-2 virus evolution advisory group has designated the novel variant, known as BA.2.86, as a variant under monitoring (VUM) due to its many mutations. The US Centers for Disease Control is also monitoring it.

"No one knows about its virulence or how transmissible it is," said Prof. Ronit Calderon-Margalit, director of the School of Public Health at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center.

Virologists are closely tracking the variant because it has more than thirty mutations within its spike protein.

"The interest is because it’s so detached from the BA.2 Omicron variant [which drove most COVID cases around the world]. So it’s like a second generation of the BA.2. Supposedly that’s how they see it now," Calderon-Margalit said.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [27 views ] Top

#1 Let me guess... new lockdowns... new vacs...

Fuck you establishment cucks.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-08-19 00:13|| 2023-08-19 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Functioning gain ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-19 01:18|| 2023-08-19 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 You notice they waited until the furor over the cold fusion room temperature semiconductor hoax blew over.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-19 06:42|| 2023-08-19 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 What If There Had Been No COVID Coup?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-19 08:05|| 2023-08-19 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC

But it may not go down as well the second time. "History always repeats itself: The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

Posted by Tom 2023-08-19 10:11|| 2023-08-19 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 OH MY GOD!!! We are all gonna die!!!!! Take another shot, even though they dont know if it will work. But at least you will feel better about not dying of COVID when your heart stops from myocarditis....

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-08-19 11:37|| 2023-08-19 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I am going to wait for word from Neil because it ain’t Covid until Cavuto gives us the truth.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-19 11:49|| 2023-08-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 The fact that it appeared first in the US and Israel is pretty conspicuous.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-08-19 11:51|| 2023-08-19 11:51|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 - Good call

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-19 12:27|| 2023-08-19 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 even though they dont know if it will work

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-19 12:52|| 2023-08-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 even though they dont know if it will work

Even if they know it won't work.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-19 12:53|| 2023-08-19 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Change my mind:

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-08-19 16:21|| 2023-08-19 16:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Covid mandates returning?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-08-19 19:56|| 2023-08-19 19:56|| Front Page Top