re: the ''new'' Covid Strain (Page 2/3)
2.5 DEC 30, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:


Again, that depends on how people act and react, not how the virus performs.
70% more infectious capability is only applicable IF it gets out of the person that is sick or infected.



Its good to be optimistic.
2.5 DEC 30, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by cvxjet:

Wouldn't it be better to just let the virus run it's course? At a 5% mortality rate, that would mean we only lose 15 million Americans......




Of course not.
rinselberg DEC 30, 02:50 PM
I wouldn't call Luke Letlow an "anti-masker." The 41-year old Congressman-elect from Louisiana who just died from Covid. This is from the Washington Post:

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As the coronavirus ravaged Louisiana, Letlow urged residents to follow social distancing guidelines and to listen to doctors . . .but photos on his Twitter page show he had an inconsistent record of wearing masks while campaigning, sometimes covering his face at meet-and-greets but also speaking indoors without a mask on to rooms of mask-free residents. At a candidate forum in October, Letlow urged the state to ease pandemic restrictions, saying, “We’re now at a place if we do not open our economy, we’re in real danger.”



So, not an "anti-masker" but an "early opener." That's how I would describe it.

It's a sad story and I mean no disrespect to the late Congressman.

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cvxjet DEC 30, 04:21 PM
I apologize; I had read an article that he was an "Anti-mask" Covid denier.......Need to do more fact straining....
maryjane DEC 31, 07:39 AM
I see where Colorado Gov has asked permission from the Co. medical gurus to drop all counties (it was not stated if any are currently involved with the new variant) down from Condition Red to Condition Orange, even tho the case numbers in those counties have not yet reached the 'Orange' threshold.
The request is based on a declining trend.

https://krdo.com/news/2020/...-level-orange-jan-4/
Obviously this affects me not at all but I can't say I find it a good idea.

Our Tx gov did that, for the whole state back in May (an early opener) and predictably, Tx went right up to #1 in the nation (YEA!! We're #1 We're #1!) for about 2 months until being bumped back down to #2 by those rascals out in Calif. (Boo!)


Tx went from around 1000 deaths in mid May to the current 27,500 deaths today.

https://www.worldometers.in...ronavirus/usa/texas/

There is, relatively speaking, a LOT of resistance to masks and distancing here in Texas.

rinselberg JAN 02, 08:38 AM
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant

That's the official way to reference the more infectious strain of Covid-19 that's been getting the media buzz.

I remember MeM was out in front on this, some months ago, when he used the New Topic function to create "Billy May's here for COVID-20." He had no inkling, of course.

The first research reports about it are emerging.

"Study Confirms New U.K. Coronavirus Variant Is Substantially More Transmissible"
Victoria Forster for Forbes; January 1, 2020.
https://www.forbes.com/site...ble/?sh=7397c18a2e96

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rinselberg JAN 04, 11:06 AM
I've seen some disconcerting reports about the South African strain that's been detected in Australia and elsewhere. That it is even more infectious than the U.K. strain, and that the way that the South African strain has mutated is even "more"--which has virologists and vaccine specialists concerned that it might not be so vulnerable to the vaccines that have already been deployed and are still being rolled out in the mass vaccination campaigns.

But these are just preliminary reports.

Here's something else.

"Britain takes a gamble with Covid-19 vaccines, upping the stakes for the rest of us"
Helen Branswell for STAT; January 4, 2021.
https://www.statnews.com/20...-for-the-rest-of-us/

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In recent days, the British have said they will stretch out the interval between the administration of the two doses required for Covid-19 vaccines already in use — potentially to as long as three months, instead of the recommended three or four weeks. And they have said they will permit the first dose and second dose for any one person to be from different vaccine manufacturers, if the matching vaccine is not available.

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maryjane JAN 04, 11:16 AM
US may go a different route and cut down the dosage/injection. Maybe by as much as 1/2. The available vaccine stores will then give twice as many people 'some' immunity tho it's just a strategy that's being thrown out there right now.
maryjane JAN 05, 10:04 AM
The new variant is detected incidentally using the 3 gene PCR test.
Everything would be just fine if we would simply stop testing.

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"There's always a new Covid variant, or a giant stinging wasp, or a new blood sucking disease carrying tick that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy money grubbing lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!"


Covid is no worse than the flu, and is just a made up crisis and will all go away after the weather warms up, Nov 3,Christmas, Jan 20.

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rinselberg JAN 12, 07:10 AM
The U.K. strain and the South African strain. About "70 percent more" infectious, but preliminary indications are that the currently available vaccines are effective against these two mutations of the coronavirus. A brief video update from NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, aka "The Master of Irony" as I described him on another recently active forum thread.

https://youtu.be/ANI6k_oIGRE?t=2363

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