Posted on 11/28/2022 11:25:58 AM PST by Angelino97
The next Covid variant to emerge is poised to be more severe than the mild strains that are currently world-dominant, according to a new study.
The ultra-infectious Omicron strain emerged almost exactly a year ago and its mutated spinoffs have risen to the top in virtually every country in the world.
They are far milder than the older versions of the virus and many researchers believed they represented a kind of end game for Covid’s evolution, which like many viruses before it, mutate to be more mild so they can spread more easily.
But researchers in South Africa say the virus still has the potential to get deadlier after examining an immunocompromised HIV patient who harbored the virus for half a year.
Over time, the virus evolved to cause more cell death and cell fusion, leading to inflammation in the lungs.
These effects more closely resembled those of the ancestral Covid strain than the Omicron strain, according to Alex Sigal, leader of the study.
The patient is one of the longest known sufferers of Omicron, which itself is widely believed to have evolved in someone with a severely weakened immune system.
Immunocompromised people cannot adequately clear out infection, which allows the virus to continually replicate and mutate in their body over time, before spreading to others with its new alterations.
Still, the findings from South Africa represent just one theory about the future of Covid's spread and protection gained through vaccination and prior infection puts the US - and world - in a stronger position to beat back another deadly surge.
The finding comes amid warnings that China's unrelenting Covid outbreak could spawn a doomsday variant which has the potential to send the world back to square one in its fight against the virus.
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Covid research is now, guesswork.
“But researchers in South Africa say the virus still has the potential”
potential - translation: possible with equal parts of “not sure”.
Next major COVID variant IS poised to be more deadly.
The Fascists’ are rampant with the incessant fearmongering.
Fauci & his cohorts should be tried & hung—on live TV.
Next major COVID variant IS poised to be more deadly.
**** your face! (not you Angelino97)
so one HIV patient got worse so they conclude the strain is becoming more potent. this is nothing more than a scare tactic piece of garbage.
Sensational tabloids gonna sensationalize. DM is no exception.
I totally disagree. Fauxi et all should be hanged! lol
Maybe, instead of locking down normal people, they should put fags in camps.
Its Daily Mail - is Putin harboring Omicron?
More like.
That is why we science equivocators basking in natural immunity are the Promethean gods atop Mt Olympus decimating the enemy covid with herd immunity thunderbolts and you 90 pound weakling vaxheads, led by that 80 pound weakling girlyman, Fauci, hide in your caves starving afraid to venture out to the tofu store.
That is why we science equivocators basking in natural immunity are the Promethean gods atop Mt Olympus decimating the enemy covid with herd immunity thunderbolts and you 90 pound weakling vaxheads, led by that 80 pound weakling girlyman, Fauci, hide in your caves starving afraid to venture out to the tofu store.
Fear porn
This is my worried face...
Are these the same shills who predicted massive hurricanes, melting ice caps, cannibalism, whatnot from global warming?
Can you order shills from a single website, or does each scam have its own?
On my way to say——🔬🤔😵🚫😷💉🐎💩!
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