A new COVID-19 mutation more contagious than Delta

Aneeda72

Aneeda72

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A new variant-just in time for Christmas found in many places, but from what I saw mostly Africa. Resistance to the vaccines, possibly completely resistance. More contagious than Delta.

What I saw reported was a man, with this virus, in a hotel room, “gave” the virus to a man in a room next to him. 🥺 The hotel might have been in the UK. In any event, it seems this variant has made its way to the UK.

What have you all heard?
 

win231 said:
It's all those anti-vaxxer's fault, dammit! :ROFLMAO:
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@win231 i am curious and may have missed this, is there anyone you care about, family, friends, aliens, or are you all alone now? Just, you know, you and you? The deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is not amusing.

Unavoidable-maybe, tragic-certainly, heartbreaking to their relatives-for sure. But amusing? Nope.
 
Aneeda72 said:
A new variant-just in time for Christmas found in many places, but from what I saw mostly Africa. Resistance to the vaccines, possibly completely resistance. More contagious than Delta.

What I saw reported was a man, with this virus, in a hotel room, “gave” the virus to a man in a room next to him. 🥺 The hotel might have been in the UK. In any event, it seems this variant has made its way to the UK.

What have you all heard?
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as I posted earlier there has been no cases diagnosed in the UK ...yet!!
 
We've resigned ourselves to getting numerous "boosters" in coming years. Just as the flu vaccines change every year, so will the treatments for this virus, IMO. I don't see this illness going away anytime soon, so it's something we will just have to live with, and take any/all measures to avoid becoming a victim.
 
I told ya'll when COVID first hit, this virus is going to mutate, that's what viruses do and that "they" don't know everything yet so there's no way we can. What's going to happen now? Monthly COVID shots and boosters? People talk about anti-vaxxers and those of us who are not vaccinated (we are not all "anti-vaxxers") being the ones who spread the virus but IMO, some of those who have been vaccinated let their guards down, stopped wearing masks, mingle in large, maskless crowds, so they share the blame in spreading the virus.

Aneeda from what I saw on the news the new variant has been found in Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium. Wouldn't be surprised if more countries are added to the list in the next couple of days despite new travel restrictions.
 
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At least 61 new cases of Covid have entered the Netherlands from South Africa, the Dutch health ministry has revealed as fears mount over the spread of the new super mutant variant Omicron.

Around 600 passengers arrived on two planes in Schipol Airport, near Amsterdam, from Johannesburg — the epicentre for the new strain that experts fear is 40 per cent more vaccine evasive than Delta — hours after travel bans were put in place.

Europe's first case of the variant was spotted in Belgium yesterday — despite the unvaccinated woman who caught it having travelled to Turkey and Egypt, not souther Africa where the strain emerged.

And Germany today confirmed its first suspected case, with initial sequencing suggests a traveler from South Africa was carrying the virus with several mutations shared by Omicron. Officials are awaiting full sequencing later today.

South Africa recorded 2,828 new Covid cases yesterday, more than double the 1,374 recorded last Thursday, but infection levels have yet to skyrocket in the country and no hospitalisations with the new variant have occurred so far.

And Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, one of the Oxford scientists behind the AstraZeneca vaccine, today expressed cautious optimism that existing vaccines could be effective at preventing serious disease from the variant.

The US has joined the growing list of countries to close their borders, with President Joe Biden saying the pandemic will not end until global vaccinations are in place. And Australian authorities — who also banned travel to nine countries in the region — fear the variant may have already entered the country.

It comes as Boris Johnson prepares to implement fresh travel bans on a host of countries, after Britain halted flights to South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe yesterday.

Experts warned Britain could face restrictions being reintroduced in the country this Christmas but the Prime Minister hopes travel bans could prevent the need for another lockdown.

England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty said he fears Britons will not accept lockdown rules to fight off the variant over the winter because of 'behavioural fatigue' caused by two years of restrictions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Holland-South-Africa-test-positive-Covid.html
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I told ya'll when COVID first hit, this virus is going to mutate, that's what viruses do and that "they" don't know everything yet so there's no way we can. What's going to happen now? Monthly COVID shots and boosters? People talk about anti-vaxxers and those of us who are not vaccinated (we are not all "anti-vaxxers") being the ones who spread the virus but IMO, some of those who have been vaccinated let their guards down, stopped wearing masks, mingle in large crowds also unmasked, so they share the blame in spreading the virus.

Aneeda from what I saw on the news the new variant has been found in Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium. Wouldn't be surprised if more countries are added to the list in the next couple of days despite new travel restrictions.
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I do remember, now that you brought it up 😊, Israel was also mentioned
 
Aneeda72 said:
A new variant-just in time for Christmas found in many places, but from what I saw mostly Africa. Resistance to the vaccines, possibly completely resistance. More contagious than Delta.

What I saw reported was a man, with this virus, in a hotel room, “gave” the virus to a man in a room next to him. 🥺 The hotel might have been in the UK. In any event, it seems this variant has made its way to the UK.

What have you all heard?
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Pfizer says it will know in 2 weeks if the current vaccine is effective against the Omicron variant and could have a targeted vaccine in 100 days. Apparently this variant has 50 mutations, most of which affect the spike protein.
 
Flaneuse said:
Pfizer says it will know in 2 weeks if the current vaccine is effective against the Omicron variant and could have a targeted vaccine in 100 days. Apparently this variant has 50 mutations, most of which affect the spike protein.
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How can they know in 2 weeks?

This variant is new, a large number of vaccinated people would have to be infected with it and then be exposed to it to know if it works or not.
 
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