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Coach McGuirk

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For anyone keeping score in the covid game, I linked what I think is as a


a pretty good article (way below). I don't know what sites have what political leanings (for the offended compromised), so fair warning...it is science.org
I've been clicking around trying to find out how severe the symptoms are, mostly. Like...will it kill me? So far, it appears it is too early to tell. Orrrr...are "they" just saying that to keep us calm =)

Some cliff notes:

"It’s hard to tell how infectious a virus is based on mutations alone, says Aris Katzourakis, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford. “But if we were looking out for mutations that do affect transmissibility, it's got all of them,” he says."

"The sequence also suggests the virus could excel at evading human antibodies"

"Bloom thinks people who recovered from COVID or were vaccinated are unlikely to completely lose their ability to neutralize the virus. “But I would expect, based on this particular combination of mutations, that the drop in neutralization is larger than for all the other major variants.” "

"Travel restrictions come with an economic and social cost, which could be a disincentive to report new variants. “I've heard through the grapevine that countries didn't push sequences out very quickly [in the past] because they were worried about travel bans,” says Emma Hodcroft, a virologist at the University of Bern. “This is the opposite of what we want.” "

Link: here


Posted: 11/28/2021 at 11:03AM



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