CNBC: The coronavirus has mutated and appears to be more contagious now, new study finds

[LiberalArkie]

PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 5 20201:16

The coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, over four months ago has since mutated and the new, dominant strain spreading across the U.S. appears to be even more contagious, according to a new study.

The new strain began spreading in Europe in early February before migrating to other parts of the world, including the United States and Canada, becoming the dominant form of the virus across the globe by the end of March, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote in a 33-page report published Thursday on BioRxiv.

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The Los Alamos researchers, with the help of scientists at Duke University and the University of Sheffield in England, were able to analyze thousands of coronavirus sequences collected by the Global Initiative for Sharing All Influenza, an organization that promotes the rapid sharing of data from all influenza viruses and the coronavirus.

To date, the researchers have identified 14 mutations.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/the-coronavirus-mutated-and-appears-to-be-more-contagious-now-new-study-finds.html

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. THIS IS AT LEAST THE 5th THREAD ON AN INCONCLUSIVE STUDY

This study has not been peer reviewed and can’t be considered as scientific evidence.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Yea but this one is from the Stock Brokers or Us web site. You know the money or used to have money

place.

Edited to add: Still nothing on Forbes, they must not be out of their bunkers yet.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R

Thanks for posting Liberal!

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Scientific rebuttal to LA Times' irresponsible reporting:

Link to tweet

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[stopdiggin]

8. Thanks. For some responsible feedback here.

And like you said, already 5 or 6 strings on this "new" headline? Is there some reason we're pushing this story? Hmmm?

[ucrdem]

5. Hadn't heard but I had a sneaking suspicion we're not out of the woods.

Try to stay safe my friends. It isn't going to be easy in some places.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Especially since the Don is stopping the coronovirus Taskforce

[ucrdem]

17. I think they must see or imagine an angle in keeping it going.

Lightening pension liabilities maybe, or reducing welfare rolls. Because this insane response seems like an invitation for catastrophe.

[frazzled]

7. Didn't I read another thread just this morning

that claimed the complete opposite: studies showing that the virus was weakening?

This is why I am pretty much ignoring the daily doses of corona news. Nobody knows anything conclusive. I'm just staying inside and washing my hands (and clothes and countertops and anything else I can find) for the next who knows when.

[LiberalArkie]

9. Kind of like Schrdinger's cat I believe

[stopdiggin]

11. little evidence that the "new" (same as the old) strain

is any more infectious .. or deadly. You're being wise with your wait and see approach.

[Jersey Devil]

18. Yes, read the same opposite story

I think it was CNN

[jcgoldie]

21. "weakening" was in reference to its fatality rate...

... its not the opposite of more contagious. In fact if less people die then it probably becomes more contagious by virtue of not killing its hosts.

[JCMach1]

10. The part of this story to be concerned about is how readily

This is mutating, not the overblown headline

[stopdiggin]

12. no more often than other viruses of this class

and other studies have actually identified more mutations in this one .. without the alarmist bent.

[LiberalArkie]

13. What good is going through the trouble of having a pandemic and not being able to run around with

hair on fire panic?

[stopdiggin]

14. whatever trips your trigger

and, for my part, 3000 a day by June is pretty "on fire"
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[JCMach1]

15. Precisely... A good deal of what I was reading was poopooing

Mutation at all. Ummmm this confirms it's proceeding apace

[procon]

16. It's going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible,

for scientists to develop a vaccine with a virus like this. Testing it to determine if it is effective against one single strain would have been hard enough but how to They include 14 mutations?

That stupid Trump needs to shut up about a street ready vaccine within a couple of months. It's not going to happen, never was, but especially not after this new development.

[Shermann]

19. We're still arguing about what the R0 of the main strain is

How can we possibly compare the contagiousness of two strains accurately?

[jimlup]

20. So the market was up almost 130 points today because, well yipee!

we're phasing out the shutdown.

Fools, I've never seen such fools. We need a vaccine but all the wishful thinking and thrown money by Trump's clan isn't going to make it real.