New Variant identified.in France...origins in Camaroon

[WillJ8787]

Source:
https://www.dw.com/en/new-coronavirus-variant-identified-in-france/a-60329823

Nothing is know about it yet except that it is new and the result of nobody being vaccinated in Camaroon.

The vaccine rate in Camaroon is about 2.5%....variants will thrive in an environment like this completely making the "hurd immunity" argument mute and opening the world up to the potential of a variant that is significantly more deadly....a global killer.

 

[ll74]

Covariants.org doesn't even have this one listed yet. Let's hope infection rate on this one is low

 

[Sean Renaud]

Maybe it would be wise at this point to treat COVID as a terrorist. Their goals? To scare us into staying alone and indoors for the rest of our lives bringing Western Civilization to a screaming halt. Their means? A the ability to kill, it is limited but its effective enough that it has become the second leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer. Our tools and weapons? Masks, vaccinations, social distancing and cleanliness. Our best tactics? To distrubute to the best our and our allies ability to get these things distributed on a global basis.

We must continue to study our enemy. How he travels, where he hides. If we find out that it's carried in penguins we'll start in South America and travel to every reach of the globe with those fucking flightless fowls. Not rain, not dark of night no evil shall escape our might.

Back on point can we PLEASE get these people vaccinated?!

 

[pecksniff]

Next letter after omicron is pi --

Can't see that catching on as the name for this.

 

[Wrong Element]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-04/who-official-downplays-coronavirus-variant-found-in-france-ky08hmpe


Any new variant from now on is to going to have to be able to outcompete Omicron, which is already amazingly transmissible.

 

[LittleDixie]

I'm going to blame wet markets.

 

[pecksniff]

I'm going to blame wet markets.

Times Square, Canal Street, or Tenderloin?

 

[butters]

very early days with this one, very few cases identified so far

what they do know:

The variant, tentatively identified B.1.640.2 according to a recent study backed by the French government that has yet to be peer-reviewed, is believed to be Cameroonian in origin and have so far spread to 12 patients in southern France.

This new variant seems to have 46 new mutations as well as 37 deletions.

no information forthcoming yet as to what these are.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...cted-in-france-study/ar-AASooXE?ocid=msedgntp

seems more transmissible but not much else different
not listed as a variant of concern. as yet, anyway.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...-19-variant-symptoms/ar-AAStmXZ?ocid=msedgntp