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| Fauci: Allowing virus to replicate could make 'worse variant' that 'could impact the vaccinated' |
| 2021-08-09 |
| [FOX] Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that allowing the coronavirus delta variant to circulate freely among unvaccinated individuals could lead to a more potent variant that could harm even vaccinated individuals. The delta variant has already given rise to a small variant known as "delta plus" variant that has a spike protein mutation that may cause it to spread faster. So far, the variant has appeared in only a few cases in several countries, but the original delta variant rapidly spread through the United States and became the dominant strain after only a few months. So far, health officials have argued, and studies have shown, that vaccinated individuals remain protected from serious illness, hospitalization and death due to current variants of COVID-19. Fauci cautioned, however, that unvaccinated individuals will allow the virus to circulate and continue to mutate, potentially giving rise to a variant that could harm even vaccinated individuals. "There's a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate," Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." "Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease, but if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant, and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Viruses tend to become less lethal with time -- the most dangerous period is when they've developed the ability to infect a new species. Killing the host is the worst outcome as far as a virus is concerned -- corpses can't make more viruses. So letting the virus spread MIGHT develop a more lethal strain, but the odds are it will develop into a less lethal strain. Regardless, it will eventually fade into the background noise of other corona viruses. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-08-09 21:31 |
| #8 ALL viruses mutate. There is no way to totally eradicate a virus once it's been introduced into the wild. The only way to stop a virus from being "pandemic" is to develop immunity in the general population, either through immunization or development of natural immunities. Neither one will stop EVERYTHING, but they'll make it easier to treat those that do come down with it. Fauci is promoting more fear, and even he knows it. Someone needs to give him a long, painful lecture out behind the woodshed, and tell him to either put a plug in it, or do it for him. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2021-08-09 19:01 |
| #7 I'm sure they have other manufactured viruses ready to unleash if the variants fail to create the political outcome the elitists want. |
| Posted by: CO 2021-08-09 14:50 |
| #6 ^ LOL. |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-08-09 11:54 |
| #5 If enough people dump enough chemicals down a storm sewer, we may get something even more powerfully toxic than carfentanyl. And a million monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years couldn't have come up with the grants that Fauxi let to Wuhan in a million years. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-09 11:36 |
| #4 Wet Market? More like Lab Technician 2nd Class Li slipped on a wet floor and dropped a rack of test tubes. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-08-09 10:11 |
| #3 Is there still anyone out there who believes this all began in a Chinese wet market ? Asking for a friend. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-08-09 09:45 |
| #2 According to Dr. Robert Malone, these could be the initial signs of ADE. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-08-09 09:43 |
| #1 Why does she think the vaccine will get to the migrants? Kamala Harris will discuss sending 1.35 million COVID vaccine doses to Mexico in call with President Lopez Obrador today amid surge in infected migrants crossing border |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-09 09:05 |