• Lambda Variant

    From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to All on Tue Jul 6 11:04:44 2021
    (And so it begins. More doom and gloom to scare people into complying with what the government thinks you should do. As an aside, thanks to the US' porous borders, we can expect this crud to arrive here within days.)

    From: https://tinyurl.com/rzevh24h
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    Lambda Variant's `Unusual' Mutations May Make It Resistant to Vaccines:
    Researchers

    By Isabel van Brugen
    July 6, 2021
    Updated: July 6, 2021

    Scientists are concerned that a newly labeled COVID-19 variant, first
    detected in Peru, may be resistant to COVID-19 vaccines due to "unusual"
    mutations.

    The Lambda variant, also known as C.37, is believed to have first emerged
    in Peru in August last year, but has only been recognized as a potential
    global threat in recent weeks, with the World Health Organization (WHO)
    declaring it a variant of interest on June 17 after it appeared in several
    countries simultaneously.

    The WHO said the variant's "neutralizing antibodies" could increase its
    transmissibility or potentially increase its resistance. It was
    "associated with substantive rates of community transmission in multiple
    countries," it said.

    In Peru, the Lambda strain now accounts for 82 percent of new infections.
    Meanwhile, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico, have
    all confirmed widespread cases of the variant.

    WHO virologist Jairo Mendez-Rico told DW that although the strain may
    exhibit higher infection rates, there is no indication that it is more
    aggressive.

    Mendez-Rico told the outlet that more data is needed to compare the newly
    labeled strain to other existing strains such as gamma (P.1) and delta
    (B.1.617.2), which have already been categorized by the WHO as variants of
    concern.

    Jeff Barrett, director of the COVID-19 Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome
    Sanger Institute in the UK, told the Financial Times that it is
    challenging to "make sense of the threat from Lambda, using computational
    and lab data" because it has "rather an unusual set of mutations, compared
    with other variants."

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no cases of
    the Lambda strain have been recorded in the United States so far.

    Researchers from the University of Chile in Santiago said in a study
    published in a preprint last week that the variant has "a considerable
    potential to become a variant of concern."

    "Our data show for the first time that mutations present in the spike
    protein of the Lambda variant confer escape to neutralizing antibodies and
    increased infectivity," wrote researchers in the paper that has yet to be
    peer-reviewed.

    "Considering that this variant has rapidly spread in Peru, Ecuador, Chile,
    and Argentina, we believe that Lambda has a considerable potential to
    become a variant of concern," they wrote.

    The WHO said that further studies are needed to "validate the continued
    effectiveness of vaccines" with the Lambda strain.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to SEAN DENNIS on Tue Jul 6 14:06:00 2021
    (And so it begins. More doom and gloom to scare people into complying with wha
    the government thinks you should do. As an aside, thanks to the US' porous bor
    ders, we can expect this crud to arrive here within days.)

    Oh, come on, man, VP Harris told them not to come anymore so I am sure they won't.

    Wait, I forgot to use the sarcasm brackets... :)

    Mike

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mike Powell on Tue Jul 6 19:18:12 2021
    Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

    Oh, come on, man, VP Harris told them not to come anymore so I am sure they won't.

    Meanwhile, "President" Biden is revealing how his wife punishes him at
    home if he misbehaves.

    Wait, I forgot to use the sarcasm brackets... :)

    I think those are always assumed.

    -- Sean


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