Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[roydo]

I hate to ask, but is that good or bad?

 

[grandjoeblue]

Vietnamese variant is today's news. New day new variant.

 

[COYBL25]

Vietnamese variant is today's news. New day new variant.

So far we`ve had the :

The Chinese variant.
The South African Variant.
The Brazilian / Manaus Variant.
The Kent Variant.
The Indian Variant.
The Thai Variant.
The Yorkshire Variant. ( side effects, include braying the wife and Whippet )
and now the Vietnamese Variant.

Undoubtedly another couple will be along anytime soon.

Is it any wonder that the public are becoming increasingly blase to it all ???

 

[LinekersLegs]

I hate to ask, but is that good or bad?

On the good news side of the equation the scientists really seem to be narrowing down on which changes in a variant make the most difference compared to the wild type and the mechanics of how they differ.

on the less good news side
“Together, these data demonstrate viruses in this emerging lineage have enhanced S cleavage by furin which we hypothesise could be enhancing transmissibility and pathogenicity.”

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Tramps_mate]

Researchers Tie Severe Immunosuppression to Chronic COVID-19 and Virus Variants

This Medical News article discusses clinical care and isolation for patients with prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infections, who researchers say may generate and transmit viral variants.

jamanetwork.com

Complicating the matter, some severely immunocompromised patients don’t mount a robust response to standard vaccines, like those for influenza and hepatitis B, Mellors said. Research is starting to show that the same is likely true for the novel coronavirus. In a recent study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, only about half of 658 fully vaccinated solid organ transplant recipients generated SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

Severely immunosuppressed patients are therefore uniquely vulnerable not only to becoming infected, but also to being chronically infected—and infectious. Researchers are interested in using monoclonal antibodies prophylactically in these patients. In the meantime, it’s critical that family members and caregivers are vaccinated to create a “bubble” around people with weakened immune systems

Lock them in a dungeon?

 

[Cool_Blue]

Plastered all over the petrol pumps at my local Asda ffs

 

[coollino]

Saw some mates for the first time since last Feb for a drink and it was like I only saw them a few weeks ago.

You kind of forget that everyone has done nothing.

 

[LinekersLegs]

and closing places that were open

 

[peteblue]

I hate to ask, but is that good or bad?

What, the spike cleavage ?......depends on your view I suppose......

 

[summerisle]

 

[Leylo]

Vietnamese variant is today's news. New day new variant.

Wayfair will be gutted

 

[TN Toffee]

and closing places that were open

Wait, so the anti-lockdown protest got so out of hand that it actually locked down one of, if not the biggest shopping centers in London? Idiots.