A year ago, Trump was cruising to victory with a record economy.
People were saying......He may be a jerk but the economy is strong.
Then COVID hit
Trump proved to be inept in leading the country during a crisis. His denial, misinformation, refusal to accept responsibility and failure to insist on strong social measures (masks) led to massive US infection rates
The shutdowns crashed Trumps vaunted economy
Then Biden is fucked....
Trump didn't create the virus, but now it's mutated into something more contagious, so unless Biden can "sniff it out" and cure it with his "magic hands", we're sure to see it take off now (especially since any vaccines that have been developed
won't work on a mutation)....
The potentially deadly and fast-spreading coronavirus has been mutating to become even more contagious, according to new research. Scientists from the Houston Methodist Hospital on Wednesday releas…
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The potentially deadly and fast-spreading coronavirus has been mutating to become even more contagious, according to new research.
Scientists from the Houston Methodist Hospital on Wednesday released a study of more than 5,000 genetic sequences of coronavirus recovered in the earliest wave of the pandemic in the Texas city and from an ongoing more recent series of infections.
Many different strains of the virus emerged in Houston initially, but when the city shifted from its smaller first phase in March to a significantly larger outbreak over the summer, almost every genetic sample contained a mutation on the virus' surface, which had previously cropped up in Europe.
Those infected with the latter strain showed more virus particles upon diagnosis, which means it had grown to become more contagious and likely drove the surge of cases in the Houston area, researchers said. They also concluded the shift in structure did not make the virus more deadly, noting its severity is most strongly linked to whether or not the patient has an underlying condition.
The mutation, known as D614G, has been shown to increase the number of “spikes” coming from the virus. Those spikes are what allow COVID-19 to bind to and infect cells, and having more makes it significantly easier for the disease to latch on.
While most virus mutations are insignificant, the persistent presence of COVID-19 in the United States — where more than 200,000 people have died — has given it ample opportunities to reshape itself into something stronger.
Scientists in a paper published Wednesday identified a new strain of the virus, which accounted for 99.9 percent of cases during the second wave in the Houston, Texas area.
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As the coronavirus mutates, one particular strain may have become even more contagious, according to a study.
Scientists in a paper published Wednesday identified a strain of the virus that has accounted for 99.9 percent of cases during the second wave in the Houston, Texas, area,
the Washington Post reported.
The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, said people with the strain, known as the D614G mutation, had higher loads of virus — suggesting it could be more contagious.
Though the strain isn’t more deadly, researchers said it appeared to have adapted better to spread among humans.
David Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the outlet the findings suggest that the virus may become more contagious and that this “may have implications for our ability to control it.”
He said it’s possible that the virus had evolved to resist efforts such as hand-washing and social distancing.
“Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious, it statistically is better at getting around those barriers,” Morens told the newspaper.
He said one possibility could be that the virus will continue to mutate as other diseases have, and our vaccines will have to change in response.
“Although we don’t know yet, it is well within the realm of possibility that this coronavirus, when our population-level immunity gets high enough, this coronavirus will find a way to get around our immunity,” Morens said.
