COVID SCIENCE-New coronavirus adapts to populations; vaccine works in monkeys

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COVID SCIENCE-New coronavirus adapts to populations; vaccine works in monkeys. (Adds studies on blood thinners, antibodies)

NEW YORK May 6 (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.


https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/covid-science-coronavirus-adapts-populations-192023611.html

 

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COVID SCIENCE-New coronavirus adapts to populations;
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/covid-science-coronavirus-adapts-populations-192023611.html

The article also says that experts agree all RNA viruses (ie influenza, SARS, COVID-19) mutate, and it's not necessarily a bad thing.

On the other hand, scientists now agree that the mutated strain (that is now spreading worldwide) is much more virulent than the original one. Not only that, but it also "may make people vulnerable to a second infection after a first bout with the disease."
https://www.latimes.com/california/...rus-has-emerged-more-contagious-than-original


Clearly genetically engineered to both enhance it's virulence, and no long-lasting immunity.
Adios herd immunity. Were fucked.

 

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Bad news about a potential vaccine too:

Australian experts just made people aware that massmedia's optimism re a covid vaccine is misplaced:



"Prof. Peter Collignon: "Previous studies and trials into coronaviruses have produced vaccines which not only didn't work, but in fact "actually enhanced infection."

He doesn't believe "we'll have a vaccine anytime soon. It's also not a given we’ll have a vaccine at all."

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6155726631001