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The Latest on the Virus
- Thread starter Salty
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From the article: "
...and published in a non-peer reviewed paper released on website medRxiv.org on Sunday."
So much for vetting one's source!
From the website in question where this "study" was published:
Caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
You get that? ..."SHOULD NOT BE REPORTED IN NEW MEDIA"
Fake news that I neither trust or would repeat...
Gold Dragon
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To understand the significance (or lack of significance) of this study, you need to understand a bit of virology.
mutations happen with all viruses. The more viral reproduction occurs (ie more infected people) the more mutations happen. One reason the flu is so good at evading our immune systems and why we need vaccines every year is because of a very high mutation rate. Corona viruses are relatively lower in their mutation rates compared to influenza because of how it replicates. Even so I think there have already been over 1000 mutations identified so far.
auspice
Almost all of these mutations have absolutely no significance except for identification purposes because they do not affect the function, infectivity or severity of the virus (they often cause no change in the actual viral proteins). But the more infections we get, the more likely we get a functionally significant mutation. That could go either way to be less or more virulent. It also plays into the problem of whether we actually develop immunity after exposure and for how long.
mutations happen with all viruses. The more viral reproduction occurs (ie more infected people) the more mutations happen. One reason the flu is so good at evading our immune systems and why we need vaccines every year is because of a very high mutation rate. Corona viruses are relatively lower in their mutation rates compared to influenza because of how it replicates. Even so I think there have already been over 1000 mutations identified so far.
auspice
Almost all of these mutations have absolutely no significance except for identification purposes because they do not affect the function, infectivity or severity of the virus (they often cause no change in the actual viral proteins). But the more infections we get, the more likely we get a functionally significant mutation. That could go either way to be less or more virulent. It also plays into the problem of whether we actually develop immunity after exposure and for how long.
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Gold Dragon
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This is for you, Benjamin, because I think you have lost the edge, & become a tool. I hate when that happens. Cheers.
Global COVID-19 Lockdown - What You're Not Being Told, Part 1
It is not I whose thinking is controlled by hyper political narratives which would defy the common sense to understand the importance to slow down this virus and would be willing to unnecessarily sacrifice the lives of many due to few political pundits' influences to panic about losing my liberty. No sir! I think for myself!
I really would not trust the Chinese at all about anything because they have to do what the Chinese Communist Party tells them to do. I wish that Trump would tell us if this virus has some HIV in it as has been reported since it seems to have escaped the Wuhan Institute. The GOP seems to want to have a Senate hearing on this virus but the people at the Pentagon should know exactly what this virus is and where it came from for a long time now.