The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the United States. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.
Scientists say the variant – called BA.2.75 – may be able to spread rapidly and get around immunity from vaccines and previous infection. It’s unclear whether it could cause more serious disease than other omicron variants, including the globally prominent BA.5.
“It’s still really early on for us to draw too many conclusions,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “But it does look like, especially in India, the rates of transmission are showing kind of that exponential increase.” Whether it will outcompete BA.5, he said, is yet to be determined.
Still, the fact that it has already been detected in many parts of the world even with lower levels of viral surveillance “is an early indication it is spreading,” said Shishi Luo, head of infectious diseases for Helix, a company that supplies viral sequencing information to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest mutant has been spotted in several distant states in India, and appears to be spreading faster than other variants there, said Lipi Thukral, a scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi. It’s also been detected in about 10 other countries, including Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada. Two cases were recently identified on the West Coast of the US, and Helix identified a third US case last week.
Fueling experts’ concerns are a large number of mutations separating this new variant from omicron predecessors. Some of those mutations are in areas that relate to the spike protein and could allow the virus to bind onto cells more efficiently, Binnicker said.
Another concern is that the genetic tweaks may make it easier for the virus to skirt past antibodies — protective proteins made by the body in response to a vaccine or infection from an earlier variant.
But experts say vaccines and boosters are still the best defense against severe COVID-19. In the fall it’s likely the US will see updated formulations of the vaccine being developed that target more recent omicron strains.
“Some may say, ‘Well, vaccination and boosting hasn’t prevented people from getting infected.’ And, yes, that is true,” he said. “But what we have seen is that the rates of people ending up in the hospital and dying have significantly decreased. As more people have been vaccinated, boosted or naturally infected, we are starting to see the background levels of immunity worldwide creep up.”
It may take several weeks to get a sense of whether the latest omicron mutant may affect the trajectory of the pandemic. Meanwhile Dr Gagandeep Kang, who studies viruses at India’s Christian Medical College in Vellore, said the growing concern over the variant underlines the need for more sustained efforts to track and trace viruses that combine genetic efforts with real world information about who is getting sick and how badly. “It is important that surveillance isn’t a start-stop strategy,” she said.
Luo said BA.2.75 is another reminder that the coronavirus is continually evolving – and spreading.
“We would like to return to pre-pandemic life, but we still need to be careful,” she said. ” We need to accept that we’re now living with a higher level of risk than we used to.”
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Going to need an even deadlier vaccine to counter this one…
The KATOOKAMA variant 🧬 incoming – RUN FOR FOR HILLS … OR BETTER STILL FIG TREE DRIVE 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
Is this one where they will try to shut the entire world down again on the 15th of July or is it not their time as yet. They say come and take your vaccine to PROTECT you from their evil minds. Hmmmm.
Well well I’m glad that it is not found or started in Africa. Why to date we haven’t heard that scientist from Cuba are part of the research teams by
Is it an Indian variant that the vaccine doesn’t protect you from it but you still have to be vaccinated?
BA.4 and BA.5 are now as infectious as measles, which was the most infectious disease known to man. BA.2.75 variant may actually be even more infectious and that would make it the most infectious human disease ever. It’s just sad to see people walking around taking no precaution when research has shown conclusively that Covid infection is not limited to your lungs. The virus actually infects all over your body and has been found inside of long Covid patients more than a year after they were infected. This virus is evolving along a path that will one day allow it to cause persistent infection just as it did with bats. Tough times ahead.
There are simple remedies that can prevent and or
treat infection and long covid. Give people the cheap off label repurposed drugs IVM and or HCQ shown to have antiviral properties along with some nutraceuticles that has also been proven in many studies to work.
It’s time for the ‘experts’ to admit they were wrong, that their strategies has not worked and at this point are doing more harm than good.
https://rescue.substack.com/p/the-drug-that-cracked-covid-part?s=w
The boosters are causing more harms to the jabbed Say NO to the new bivalent booster that’s coming to address the Omicron sub variant BA.5 because, by the time that this booster becomes available, BA.5 will have mutated several times. The continuous chasing of mutants will never end unless they stop the jabbing.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092
This is another move to continue with Mass Formation Psychosis (MFP), better known as “mass-formation”.
Eminent author, Mattias Desmet wrote about this in his outstanding book ‘The Psychology of Totalitarianism’.
He highlights that this type of tactic was well used during WW2, not only to propagate to the masses, but also used to persuade the well educated to follow suit.
And, today, you only have to look at the three Covid-19 steps to gain control of mankind by using MFP:
1), curtail people’s freedom of movement, until a so-called wonder drug is created, so that the masses literally beg for these vaccines (without due diligence), so that they “believe” their freedoms have been restored again – Half the world fell at the first Mass Formation Psychosis hurdle!
2), phase two was about persuading the rest of us to partake in getting vaccinated. Much more difficult than step one, but not impossible if you introduce tough measures to stop people from working if they didn’t take the vaccine; and knowing people have to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families.
3), and finally, create divide &;conquer tactics by introducing vaccine ID cards and documentation for travel to see families and friends, whilst they argued vehemently amongst each other regarding whether to be vaccinated or not.
There is a forth step that’s currently being hatched by the pharmaceuticals and global elites.
Could it be the ever increasing variants? Monkey pox by the back door? Or another type of fear mongering outbreak that will put us all back into lock down again?
REMEMBER FOLKS, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER …
Truth is what you speak and yes its another way to put back on this lock up according to pastor Chris, he has been giving out info. Where are the other pastors to tell us these things.
I personally would like to thank you for your contribution to ANR. I always find your contribution to be valuable, please continue.
Let me paraphrase what the expert just said- we all would like to return in a pre-pandemic lifestyle, but we have to be careful she said since we are living with a higher level of risk. Well with mutant plus monkey pox our risk have intensified several times. Then I heard Max talking about charter flights from Guadeloupe ( gate way to Europe) then I said to myself we are in trouble.
Arrow sang a song “ too much fete never kill a man yet . Then ironically he went in to list the things that kill man example; rum – the same things you get in a fete that kills .
Well today we are planning fete after fete so probably we are all in full agreement with Arrow. Too much fete never kill a man yet . Corona virus kill man , and monkey pox kill man. When leaders don’t have visions the people perish . CALLING OUT DR. L. SIMON the pathologist. Sir you were born to lead your people in a times like this. Now like Moses you will have to choose which side you are on. If it’s DEATH choose Carnival and fete and play on. If it’s LIFE follow pathology and speak up .
Time will tell….
@ Where is the GUN that SHERFIELD BOWEN used to SHOOT TESSA BARTHLEY??? 🤔👀
It in between your p flapper where you had an unwanted iron.
You out of time.
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