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COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects /// October Lockdown for UK (pg. 774)

 
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Re: COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects /// October Lockdown for UK (pg. 774)
New Variant detected in Finland temporarily named Fin-796H. Finnish experts who detected variant called combination of mutations 'unique'.

However, Taru Meri, from Vita Laboratories, told local media in Finland today: 'Details about the infectivity and potential resistance of this strain to vaccines are not yet known.

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Until the spread of the virus is stopped... there's always the chance of potentially problematic mutations. Some say that after the vaccine rollout is complete 'living' with the virus is the way to go. I'm not so sure.
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Okay so nothing is confirmed yet on how the new Finland variant differs from older variants. But based on the observed mutations it's suspected it *might* be

- more infectious
- escape immune response
- less able to be detected by some PCR tests



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One of the top epidemiologists in the U.S. and Covid advisor to the Government, Mike Osterholm, in his latest podcast doubles down on his earlier prediction I posted here last week that there will be a surge from the b117 variant in the next 6-8 weeks that will see a peak higher than that in January.




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Another New Variant

Japanese health authorities have found more than 90 cases of a new variant. It has the e484k escape mutation that has been found in other variants recently, but this is a distinct new variant.




e484k going global

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Death toll amongst disabled people in the UK at a horrifying rate
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UK planning on scaling back test, track and trace? Or making assumptions that the virus will remain suppressed forevermore.

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Another New Variant

Japanese health authorities have found more than 90 cases of a new variant. It has the e484k escape mutation that has been found in other variants recently, but this is a distinct new variant.




e484k going global

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Interesting article on the E484 here detailing increased transmissibility, antibody and vaccine evasion. Preprint so to be read with caution,


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Vaccines only have a chance if they can be distributed evenly.



The current strategy is very short termist probably deliberately so but there ain’t no sharing going on!
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‘Untouched’ Africa deaths top 100,000.



But probably is much more.

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Re: COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects /// October Lockdown for UK (pg. 774)
Brazilian city to be fully vaccinated to research the virus spread after vaccination. The study is aimed to prove the vaccines not only reduce symptoms but limit spread as well

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UK 'R' value no longer in free fall.

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Good job, NewsTard!
 Quoting: Serenity Now


Hey! Hope you're keeping well.
 Quoting: CoronaCoaster



I am! Hope you are well, as well. Lol. hf
 Quoting: Serenity Now


Not bad, thanks.

News is really picking up today. Hoping not a sign of things to come.

burnit
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I'm just now catching up. You guys are doing a great job in here!
First tell the truth, then give your opinion....
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Evidence of Pfizer stopping transmission by up to
75%

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Re: COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects /// October Lockdown for UK (pg. 774)
But wasn't Israel in a strict lockdown until about a week or two ago? Not enough time to conduct that study, in my opinion.
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Re: COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects /// October Lockdown for UK (pg. 774)
UK planning on scaling back test, track and trace? Or making assumptions that the virus will remain suppressed forevermore.


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Lol, typical. Cutting back at the most important time. Track and trace is most effective when infections are low in order to keep them low.
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Thanks for the updates, Lightning.

cheers
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But wasn't Israel in a strict lockdown until about a week or two ago? Not enough time to conduct that study, in my opinion.
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Yep. Plus many countries are seeing infections reduce naturally right now... but it's nothing to do with the vaccines it's just the usual ebb and flow that comes with this pandemic. Let's see that study be conducted again in Israel in a couple of months when the next wave starts and they have some of the dodgy variants circulating.

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...


Hey! Hope you're keeping well.
 Quoting: CoronaCoaster



I am! Hope you are well, as well. Lol. hf
 Quoting: Serenity Now


Not bad, thanks.

News is really picking up today. Hoping not a sign of things to come.

burnit
 Quoting: CoronaCoaster



I'm just now catching up. You guys are doing a great job in here!
 Quoting: Serenity Now


hf
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UK's health secretary acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had signed during the Covid pandemic, a court has ruled.

A judge said the health secretary "breached his legal obligation" by not publishing details within 30 days of contracts being signed.

The public had a right to know where the "vast" amounts spent had gone and how contracts were awarded, he added.

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Friday, February 12, 2021

Researchers propose that humidity from masks may lessen severity of COVID-19

NIH study compares how different face masks affect humidity inside the mask.
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Wonderful thread OP. How you kept this to 'just the facts' for 40 pages is incredible.

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“We found that face masks strongly increase the humidity in inhaled air and propose that the resulting hydration of the respiratory tract could be responsible for the documented finding that links lower COVID-19 disease severity to wearing a mask,” said the study’s lead author, Adriaan Bax, Ph.D., NIH Distinguished Investigator. “High levels of humidity have been shown to mitigate severity of the flu, and it may be applicable to severity of COVID-19 through a similar mechanism.”





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