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Author Topic:   New Coronavirus Variants are Examples of Beneficial Mutations
Tangle
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Message 6 of 13 (884297)
02-07-2021 1:48 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by AZPaul3
02-07-2021 1:06 PM


It's looking like the South African variant is worse, as the AZ vaccine (and probably the others too) are less effective with it.
No doubt you'll have your very own variant too soon :-(
Covid: Oxford jab offers less S Africa variant protection - BBC News

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Message 10 of 13 (884326)
02-11-2021 8:34 AM


A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic
The number of mutations in the UK variant took scientists by surprise. Now they think its origins may lie in one person, chronically infected with the virus
A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic | WIRED UK

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona
"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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