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WHO Official Downplays Coronavirus Variant Found in France

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source link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/01/04/1953258/who-official-downplays-coronavirus-variant-found-in-france?
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WHO Official Downplays Coronavirus Variant Found in France
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The World Health Organization said a coronavirus variant found in France hasn't become much of a threat since it was first identified in November. From a report: The variant "has been on our radar," Abdi Mahamud, a WHO incident manager on Covid, said at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. "That virus had a lot of chances to pick up." The variant was identified in 12 people in the southern Alps around the same time that omicron was discovered in South Africa last year. The latter mutation has since traveled the globe and kindled record levels of contagion, unlike the French one that researchers at the IHU Mediterranee Infection -- helmed by scientist Didier Raoult -- nicknamed IHU. The first patient identified with the variant was vaccinated and had just returned from Cameroon, IHU researchers wrote in a paper published on the medRxiv server in late December where they first drew attention to the atypical mutations.
How many mutations and where in the genome?

People following science want to know. Bloomberg reporter maybe not so much.

  • Yes, it's been sequenced. Here [firstpost.com] is slightly more information about it. Key points: 46 mutations including N501Y and E484K.

    • Re:

      Good to know, thanks. So only time will tell if it will compete with Omicron for dominance, or if they provide cross immunity. It may just wait in the wings for the next post-Omicron wave. Or other new variants may arise in the meantime.

      Either way I'm glad I have my booster appointment on Thursday.

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          The one that provides about a 17x lower risk of death from any variant? That actually works just fine for me, and a apparently a preponderance of people much smarter than you.

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            The sad part is the coward things anyone will miss him. We won't.

          • Re:

            I'd have far more faith in the vaccine if nearly 75% of a Cornell University dorm of 300 fully vaccinated students didn't come down with COVID at the same time.

            • Re:

              "I'd have more faith in seat belts if they weren't worn by so many people who have car crashes."

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        I'm guessing it will surrender to omicron...

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        It's actualy just Omicron off for a bit of skiing in MontgenÃvre but giving a fake name and address to the gendarmerie so no-one will know they're skiving off on the job.
  • I guess the good thing is that these new varients are getting weaker and the shots protect against all varients (hospitalization). It seems like if you catch omicron, your going to be protected against the other varients as well. So hopefully that's the same with this un named varient as well.

    • Re:

      For a little while for sure, way too early to say how long though. Neither "natural immunity" from infection nor vaccines are proving very durable so far. That has long been true of coronaviruses in general so no big shock.

      • Re:

        Flus are flus. Coronavirus will eventually become one more of the regular things people get vaccinated against, depending on which flu is expected that season.

        And no vaccine will keep people from getting the flu it is intended for, and no "natural immunity" that comes from surviving a previous bout will either. Although it is true that in people who have died from Covid-19 flu, it acts as a permanent block to getting any disease again.

        Which of course is the issue - there may be some utility to getting

        • Re:

          That seems to be what most knowledgeable experts predict. Eventually we will have vaccines tailored to whatever SARS strains are predominant every year. just like with Influenza. People will still die of flu and people will still die of COVID. Probably about 10 or 20 times as many of the latter annually, but that is their choice and as long as the health care system is managing life will return to normal and nobody will care.

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            To me, the progress made i these Vaccines, in regards to mRNA versions becoming useable, is nothing short of the right thing coming along at the right time. The concept of mRNA has been around for quite a while, but they tended to be really short lived in the body.

            But tailoring to other flus and even HIV vaccines are in the offerings in the near future. Probably bad on me for sounding optimistic. 8^)

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              I'm very happy to live in a time when we have such a good level of defense against the prevalent contagions readily available.

              Darwin will take care of the rest slowly, but surely.

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          Your "rant" would make more sense if you would not keep up mixing up
          a) a Flue is not Corona
          b) Corona is not a Flu

          I means seriously? We have a Corona pandemic since 2 years, and you "keep insisting", it is just a Flu? You have orange hairs?

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            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]

            Sorry my dude, they are considered as having a common ancestor with influenza C Virus.

            No one is "insisting" anything. And it's easier to type out "flu" than Covid-19.

            If you are going to get pedantic, the official name is Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 but we all know what you mean when you write "Corona". Although some of the pedants might note that would be referring to the Corona of the Sun or other stars, a type of cigar, or a part of the penis.

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              Point is Corona is ot a Flu
              Why do you keep insisting on it?

              So which corona are you referring to?
              Does not matter at all: all coronas are not flue!!

    • Re:

      The very nature of virii is that they mutate - a lot.

      The likely outcome of Covid-19 will eventually become just another flu. It's kind of a facepalm moment when we realize that people have decided that they would rather die than get the vaccines.

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        This monstrosity attacks a receptor that is expressed by almost every organ in your body. A recent study found that 100% of 177 survivors have autoantibodies.

        It will NEVER be "just the flu." Or if it is, it will be because it has evolved into something so different it can no longer be called "covid-19."

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