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Study of coronavirus variants predicts virus evolving to escape current vaccines
Sciance Daily ^ | March 8, 2021 | Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Posted on 03/09/2021 5:52:17 AM PST by Salman

A new study of the U.K. and South Africa variants of SARS-CoV-2 predicts that current vaccines and certain monoclonal antibodies may be less effective at neutralizing these variants and that the new variants raise the specter that reinfections could be more likely.

The study was published in Nature on March 8, 2021. A preprint of the study was first posted to BioRxiv on January 26, 2021.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; chinavirus; chinavirusstrains; chinavirusvaccine; covid; revolution; riots
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Most likely true as far as it goes.

But with the political precedent already set about what government can do in the face of a public health "crisis", it means no return to "normal" ever.

Normal will be a new generation growing up not knowing anything else, as it was with the "War on Terror".

Or does sometnig gove this time?

1 posted on 03/09/2021 5:52:17 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Intelligent virus we have, my precious.


2 posted on 03/09/2021 5:53:27 AM PST by QuigleyDU ( )
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To: Salman

The way I read the title is, “Hey, send me research money. Make it a permanent grant, my wife wants a BMW.”


3 posted on 03/09/2021 5:54:15 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Salman

I’ve seen that scientists have not yet isolated the virus.

Does it really even exist?

This was a bio-weapon. The world should destroy China as a whole.


4 posted on 03/09/2021 5:56:12 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Salman

Right on cue!

Vaccine distribution nearing efficacious levels. Need to pull out a new threat!


5 posted on 03/09/2021 5:56:17 AM PST by z3n
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To: Salman

Mutating virus is the new climate change.


6 posted on 03/09/2021 5:57:36 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Salman

of course


7 posted on 03/09/2021 5:58:44 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Salman

LOL — ‘something give’?

Nah. Welcome to your new world... You can still get breakfast at your hotel, but it will be what they HAND TO YOU. You don’t get to pick and choose and maybe talk and laugh with the other people picking and choosing their own breakfasts...

You take what you are handed and go to your space for your corporate and government approved breakfast along with the rest of the poles... who knows, maybe choco ration gets increased this week, huh?

Welcome to the new normal — a life handed to you...


8 posted on 03/09/2021 5:58:57 AM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Salman

paging Dr. Fauzi. Stop Fauzism.


9 posted on 03/09/2021 6:00:18 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Salman

That’s what viruses do.................


10 posted on 03/09/2021 6:02:58 AM PST by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: libh8er

And, just as scientifically valid.
All virii, as with all bacteria, always mutate. Anyone who did not see this coming needs to turn in their “science card”. From an evolutionary point of view, and this is evolution in action, it ought to evolve to a tamer, less virulent form. A more deadly form will burn itself out quicker. A more contagious, but less deadly form will spread wider -— which is the “purpose” of evolution; i.e., make more babies.


11 posted on 03/09/2021 6:12:57 AM PST by bobbo666 (WuhanFlu)
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To: Salman
But with the political precedent already set about what government can do in the face of a public health "crisis", it means no return to "normal" ever.

Normal will be a new generation growing up not knowing anything else, as it was with the "War on Terror".

Now don't exaggerate. The War on Terror has only been going on... checking notes... 20 years. Hmmm.

12 posted on 03/09/2021 6:16:50 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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A similar study needs to look at how well the natural antibodies of a person who successfully beat a Covid-19 infection are at neutralizing various strains of Covid-19 compared to persons who have had either of the vaccines.


13 posted on 03/09/2021 6:25:39 AM PST by Wuli
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Bill Gates will silently cheer as the global population drops by several billion people.


14 posted on 03/09/2021 6:30:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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Gee, almost as if it was engineered in a bio weapons lab as something to be set purposely on the world.


15 posted on 03/09/2021 6:34:23 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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“Evolving” diagnosis

💲✖ AI Invasion

World of the Anti Spirit Anti Christ


16 posted on 03/09/2021 6:43:10 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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I’m already two steps ahead and changing up my weed strains.


17 posted on 03/09/2021 6:48:27 AM PST by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: Salman

I’m so afraid.


18 posted on 03/09/2021 6:56:52 AM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: wastedyears

wastedyears wrote: “I’ve seen that scientists have not yet isolated the virus.”

Have you ‘googled’ “scientists have not yet isolated the virus.”? If you do so, you’ll find that has been completely debunked. Here are a few results:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9847920299

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/grows-virus-cell-culture.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-isolated/fact-check-the-virus-that-causes-covid-19-has-been-isolated-and-is-the-basis-for-the-vaccines-currently-in-development-idUSKBN28E2SB


19 posted on 03/09/2021 6:58:29 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

FYI, continuing our discussion from yesterday.


20 posted on 03/09/2021 7:08:00 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (American gun owners number more than the top 10 armies combined. What's Biden's enforcement plan?)
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