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It’s a special kind of awful to mock efforts to mitigate the impacts of a pandemic.
Looking at the amount of mutations and deletions in the omicron variant in comparison to the delta variant you can make some hypothesis without knowing too much. One being that amount of mutations usually would result in a less virulent virus which would mean increased transmission and decreased severity. Second, it either mutated over and over in an immunocompromised individual as a long term carrier, talking timeline of months or it went back into a zoonotic vector, mutated to bind better to their receptor and then jumped back into humans. Most of that though really doesn’t have much impact on the here and now but is the continued problem with high transmission levels here and through out the world.
Looking at the amount of mutations and deletions in the omicron variant in comparison to the delta variant you can make some hypothesis without knowing too much. One being that amount of mutations usually would result in a less virulent virus which would mean increased transmission and decreased severity. Second, it either mutated over and over in an immunocompromised individual as a long term carrier, talking timeline of months or it went back into a zoonotic vector, mutated to bind better to their receptor and then jumped back into humans. Most of that though really doesn’t have much impact on the here and now but is the continued problem with high transmission levels here and through out the world.
Remember, 2&2 is vaxxed (and boosted?) but thinks they do nothing
Remember, 2&2 died from COVID months ago, and there is someone else running his account now.
It’s a special kind of awful to mock efforts to mitigate the impacts of a pandemic.
It’s deceptive because SA has pretty good sequencing but it’s not that good. So the narrative that it skyrocketed overnight is pretty bullshit because what really happened was you do a tri-plex PCR and with three targets one target is deleted in certain mutants so that’s used as a screening assay. That mutation has been seen in variants of interest before, especially in SA, so you want to know if you found it. So in SA they screen for it, they find it those automatically go for sequencing. You aren’t sequencing everything, so they found a cluster with their initial screening, so selective bias for Omicron when doing conformational sequencing. The actual rate of spread is unknown right now, if you go by the media it would have been everywhere by now as the dominant variant based off the initial report, we know that’s not true.
much more than the US it would seem, then -- they're at about 1/4 vaccinated
what a fucking mess