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A new coronavirus mutation is taking over the world. Here's what that means.
www.livescience.com ^ | 07-10-2020 | By Stephanie Pappas - 3 hours ago

Posted on 07/10/2020 12:30:34 PM PDT by Red Badger

The novel coronavirus uses its spike protein (dark blue) to infiltrate host cells, whose machinery it uses to replicate its RNA (yellow).

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A mutation in the protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells might make it easier for the virus to spread — or it might not make a difference at all.

That's the crux of a debate over a mutation known as D614G, which affects the spike protein on the virus' surface. The mutation is not new. It appears in low levels in samples taken from COVID-19 patients as far back as February. But this variation of the virus (nicknamed the "G" variation) seems to show up in more and more of the virus samples taken from people infected recently compared to early in the pandemic.

A new paper, published July 2 in the journal Cell, argues that the rise in the "G" variation of the new coronavirus is due to natural selection. The study finds that virus particles with this mutation have an easier time making their way into cells, suggesting that it is outcompeting other strains of the virus to become the dominant version of SARS-CoV-2. Other, not-yet-published experiments have found similar results. However, some researchers are not yet convinced that the mutation has any real-world impact on coronavirus transmission at all. Instead, it's possible that the G variant's spread is due to chance, said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Medicine who co-authored a commentary accompanying the paper's publication.

"The virus could have easily gotten lucky," Grubaugh told Live Science.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; chinavirusmutation; mutation; panic; panicporn; panicpornstars
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1 posted on 07/10/2020 12:30:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

And somehow it will vanish Nov 4th.


2 posted on 07/10/2020 12:31:15 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: Red Badger

so....the virus is changing and mutating, which is something viruses always do, and all of the “brilliant” scientists who have been given carte-blanche to run all of our lives have absolutely no idea what it means.


3 posted on 07/10/2020 12:32:56 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Red Badger

Everything is back to normal here except with the Healthy Idiots wearing Masks and Rubber Gloves


4 posted on 07/10/2020 12:36:11 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

Title: “A new coronavirus mutation is taking over the world”

And then a line or two into the article it says that the mutation may not mean anything at all????? How does “taking over the world” mean nothing?

As I see someone posted already, the disease will go away November 4.


5 posted on 07/10/2020 12:37:21 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Red Badger

Love it, “here’s what it means” read, read, read..... We don’t know what it means.

Priceless. They achieved their mission to get noticed for something.


6 posted on 07/10/2020 12:37:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: ransomnote

EV 20 aka 2020 Election Virus


7 posted on 07/10/2020 12:40:22 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: ransomnote

IS IT NOVEMBER 4TH YET???


8 posted on 07/10/2020 12:40:51 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (God Bless President Trump!)
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To: Red Badger

What absolutely terrible “journalism”. Who on Earth wrote this terrible headline? How about something like “New mutation observed in SARS-CoV-2”?


9 posted on 07/10/2020 12:41:57 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: conservativepoet

Of course if Biden wins, it will be “VIRUS WHAT VIRUS” economy will open back up and no one will die anymore..virus will be gone..just like with swine flu, no one talked about it, no one knew a damn thing about it, it was non existent because ya know, the messiah Obama was in office


10 posted on 07/10/2020 12:42:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Red Badger

Just an excuse to explain it’s low mortality rate it always had when treated properly and without the Northern Governors murdering their elderly population.


11 posted on 07/10/2020 12:42:35 PM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Oh noes!


12 posted on 07/10/2020 12:42:44 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: Red Badger

So during the period we locked down half or more of the healthy hosts, the virus got more efficient at infecting the hosts it could find

What a coinky dink...who wouldnt have seen that coming

Lets try more lockdowns and see how “lucky” the virus is


13 posted on 07/10/2020 12:42:46 PM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: Red Badger

But this variation of the virus (nicknamed the “G” variation) seems to show up in more and more of the virus samples taken from people infected recently compared to early in the pandemic.

The ‘G’ is for “government”.


14 posted on 07/10/2020 12:45:24 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Red Badger
When do we start to push?
15 posted on 07/10/2020 12:46:40 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: butlerweave

Drives me nuts young healthy couples in sunny parks with masks on. They’re idiots making a political statement but pretend they “care” soooooo much about others effing liars


16 posted on 07/10/2020 12:46:58 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Red Badger

I like the first sentence.

“A mutation in the protein that allows SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells might make it easier for the virus to spread — or it might not make a difference at all.”

Yep. Honesty at last.

My opinion is over time lower pathogenicity, easier transmission will take place.

That’s based on SCIENCE.

Really, it is, although I’m being a bit facetious above.

But a novel to human zoonotic virus is most likely to follow such a course via natural selection.


17 posted on 07/10/2020 12:47:11 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

Call it what you will. Fauci/Biden will blame Trump for it and it will disappear in early November.


18 posted on 07/10/2020 12:49:23 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update, Panic Porn division.


19 posted on 07/10/2020 12:52:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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WUFLU 20 21 22 just around the corner.

Need NATIONAL DISTANCING from the ChiCom Plague Pit NOW.

END all travel with ChiCom and Moratorium on all goods from ChiCom china til effective testing system is in place.

DOMESTIC Manufacture of ALL drugs, medical equipment and materials (deny the ChiComs control of such things)

Meanwhile Pelosi and her cadre prattle on about spending another 10 Trillion dollars ‘stimulus’ which mostly goes to propping up big government.

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20 posted on 07/10/2020 12:58:39 PM PDT by elbook
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