The virus is mutating. In fact it's been mutating this whole time. It mutated when it went to Europe then came to our east coast. Most of the cases there came from Europe, not China.
Now it's mutating in China.
The one main thing that I got from this article is that it's going to be with all of us for a long time.
Many question unanswered by the article. Who is getting it?, age group most effected by the variation?, more virulent?, less?, sickening people who had never had earlier version or those previously infected? if so, to what extent?, does it react differently to existing treatments being tried or does it require something else?
I still do not think there is hard evidence either way, as to whether COVID-19 will be with us in a big way for the long term. Presently sounds like everybody and his brother is doing a study the disease, treatment drugs, prevention drugs, vaccines, antibody identification, on and on. Probably more active studies on this presently than on cancer, as a guaranteed cure or vaccine could make some company rich beyond dreams of avarice in a truly global pandemic and the market size is literally ever single person on the planet. This isn't Ebola, contained to fairly poor countries on the African continent. This is the real deal, a truly global pandemic that has killed people in pretty much all countries, all ethnicity, with no group displaying immunity to infection or spreading infection.
I heard a report on CNN this morning, talking with a doctor testing multiple vaccine candidates, now up to monkey studies and yielding definative, positive results. Monkey studies. Outstanding. These are the type studies where they are testing injecting the vaccines and then intentional introducing the disease to the previously susceptible study and control group. To me, that's the gold standard. Now if it will just not prove to cause something as bad or worse than Covid-19, they'll be on to something adn can move on to human studies. I am optimistic.
