Researchers identify five new cases of
‘double mutant’ Covid variant in California
CNBC,
by
Rich Mendez
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/9/2021 4:51:24 PM
Stanford University researchers have identified five new cases of a “double mutant” Covid-19 strain that was recently discovered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Doctors suspect it could be more contagious than earlier strains and may be resistant to existing vaccines. The new variant originated in India where it’s credited with a recent 55% surge in cases in the state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai, after months of declining cases. It contains two key mutations, which scientists call E484Q and L452R, that have been found separately in other variants but not together in a single strain, according to Dr. Benjamin
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 4/9/2021 4:55:41 PM (No. 749823)
Double, triple, whatever. More fear and panic porn. I really don't care. THEY want complete control over everyone 100% of the time. I'm not moved.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
49 Ford 4/9/2021 5:05:58 PM (No. 749828)
Totally with poster # 1. I'm sure that The Oracle, Dr. Fauci, will have some self-serving BS to serve up to the media about this sometime soon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/9/2021 5:13:10 PM (No. 749834)
Pardon my skepticism, but now they're just making schiff up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/9/2021 5:13:17 PM (No. 749835)
And exactly how did it get from India to San Francisco? Can anyone say "H-1B visa holders"?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/9/2021 5:13:18 PM (No. 749836)
Mutants are degraded versions of the original. The scare tactics are ramping up so the government can control more of our lives even longer. Acts 5:29 "We MUST obey God rather than men.". Got that Newsome, Fauci, and Jim Crow Joe? Y'all can byte me and go F yerselves.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 4/9/2021 5:18:02 PM (No. 749848)
YAaaawwwwwwnnnnnn
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 4/9/2021 5:21:19 PM (No. 749853)
Is this similar to "Double Secret Probation" in the movie Animal House?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/9/2021 5:23:13 PM (No. 749858)
What the F is a "double mutant" explained in plain English Rich? Just another panic ploy, no?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimincalif 4/9/2021 5:32:27 PM (No. 749866)
#7 beat me to it. Fauci is the new Dean Wormer.
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For goodness sakes. Virus mutates quickly. The mutations are generally less virulent, not more virulent. A virus that kills its host(s) quickly ends up being a short lived epidemic. Now that the narrative is being destroyed by real world data and experience, they are trying to prolong COVID madness. Can’t have the faithful become less fearful.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/9/2021 5:51:15 PM (No. 749878)
The people who created "The Walking Dead" may turn out to be very accurate prognosticators.
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It's more nonsense from idiots.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2021 6:48:58 PM (No. 749907)
This is total hogwash. Yeadon mentioned that their "mutants" are 99.7% identical, and your body will have zero difficulty identifying this minor, irrelevant mutation as the same virus.
Fake Science Fraud.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/9/2021 6:52:45 PM (No. 749909)
So what? It doesn't matter. It is time to move on.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 4/9/2021 7:04:32 PM (No. 749915)
A year of “slow the spread” has backfired in two significant ways:
1) It’s allowed more time far variants (mutations) to develop, and
2) It’s greatly multiplied opportunities for vulnerable people to contract COVID.
Thus, thanks to Fauci and his fellow-geniuses, many people have died needlessly while small businesses have been devastated.
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#15 More people have been unable to get the on-going medical care that they need to stay healthy because of covid. I can't wear a mask and I have had multiple doctor appointments cancelled on me because of it. Luckily I have a GP that doesn't believe the hype being spewed and she had been trying to cover for the specialists that won't see me.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/9/2021 7:15:02 PM (No. 749921)
More nonsense but it is not from idiots. It is from Biden's unity program to control all the country through fear and dictatorial edicts.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chumley 4/9/2021 7:36:08 PM (No. 749933)
You pathetic rubes are STILL not being scared enough. If you dont get a whole lot more lot more deferential to your betters, we will be forced to announce a triple mutation that causes transphobia and racism, and will cause Mexicans to invade your communities. You have been warned.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/9/2021 7:37:06 PM (No. 749934)
Riiight. . .
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/9/2021 8:36:48 PM (No. 749953)
Double-mutsnt? That must be a new term they made up for the situation.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
anonymous 4/9/2021 8:51:14 PM (No. 749965)
There are variants for all viruses as far as I know. The flu virus has had multiple variants over the years. There is no limit to the mainstream media's fear-mongering, apparently.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/9/2021 9:11:21 PM (No. 749977)
Based on what we learned yesterday, the double mutant is 99.4% (delta = 100 - 0.6 percent) the same as the base virus. Is CNBC double the communist propaganda organ as base NBC or do we measure propaganda virulence on a logarithmic scale?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/9/2021 10:07:19 PM (No. 750006)
Nice name you crooked clowns made up...Is this the same as the Double Back Flip into the empty pool?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/9/2021 10:55:18 PM (No. 750044)
Let me know when they come out with a vaccine for non Hodgkin's lymphoma and all other forms of cancer.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zarin 4/10/2021 8:31:48 AM (No. 750252)
If they are so scared why are they not allowing the common drugs Fluvoxamine & Ivermectin to be given to those sick people? Both have been shown to effective in early stages of covid. Fluvoxamine is especially efficient - keeping 100% of the patients treated with it out of the hospital and with NO 'long haul effects' of covid. Please - if you test positive for covid - get the Fluvoxamine at least - unless you are sensitive to it - check out the data from Steve Kirsch online. Share the data with your doctor. You can take both Ivermectin & Fluvoxamine.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/10/2021 12:18:24 PM (No. 750513)
I have developed anti-bodies...
....to all this panic hype. I suspect we're about approached herd immunity to it as a nation. Hence the fenzy from the newsies.
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Sounds like a 1950s SciFi/Horror movie. Will Old Joe send us 3-D glasses so we can see the double-mutant?