There's a new mutation of coronavirus -- and it's 10 times worse: report

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/theres-a-new-mutation-of-and-its-10-times-worse-report/


Just when people thought 2020 couldn’t possibly get worse, the news was released of a new strain of the coronavirus that is ten times worse than the one in the United States.

Malaysia was the one that detected the mutation of the strain showing it to be more infectious.

“The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a cluster that started from a restaurant owner returning from India and breaching his 14-day home quarantine,” Bloomberg News reported. “The man has since been sentenced to five months in prison and fined. The strain was also found in another cluster involving people returning from the Philippines.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci noted that a new mutation could spread the virus faster and make things much worse. The other fear is that currently there are pharmaceutical researchers working to come up with a vaccine, but a mutation could mean that vaccine is incomplete or ineffective.

*full report*

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-17/malaysia-detects-virus-strain-that-s-10-times-more-infectious

[Drunken Irishman]

1. This headline is alarmist. This strain is already the predominant one in the US.

I'm not sure why they didn't call that out in the headline. It's new to Asia but it's one we've been dealing with here in the US already.

[triron]

4. I suspected.

[Mike 03]

7. Thank you (and to the replies below) for clarification.

Didn't really need this today!

[BannonsLiver]

8. +1

Some folks delight in the doomsayer shtick. I read more than a month ago about new strains that were more contagious. This is nothing new, yet it’s presented breathlessly as if it is.

[judeling]

2. Its the same one.

We saw. It came to be known as the European type.

It is just new there.

[triron]

3. Maybe this is premature to make this claim?

Not enough data.

[Nevilledog]

5. Isn't that the big problem? We hear so much from so many places and no real guidance.

Everyday it's something new.... and extreme.

[PSPS]

6. Typical rawstory clickbait rewrite of someone else's story. This is not a "new" mutation at all.

[MineralMan]

9. Deceptive headline.

If you read the actual article, it states multiple times that it is unknown whether the mutation is more infective or more dangerous. Multiple times. The headline makes it sound like it has been found to be both more infectious and more deadly. That is simply not true. It is different. It is a mutation. That is actually all that is known.

There is no "full report." There is only an article in Bloomberg.

[LisaL]

10. This mutation is the one predominant in the US already.

Our corona virus appears to have come mostly from Europe, not China. We have the mutation they are talking about already. It likely is more infectious, since it became predominant. But we already have it in the US.

[MineralMan]

13. Yes. It's a typical rawstory clickbait headline.

It's a pity so many are taken in by such stuff.

[5X]

11. This is DU at its best.

I was going to reply with the same kind of reply and everyone beat me to it.

[Mariana]

12. This isn't "new", it's been known for months.

12 May 2020 - EXPERT COMMENTARY: 'D614G’ mutation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19

https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/Covid19-expert-commentary-D614G-mutation-of-SARS-CoV-2