New Corona Variant, that might be very dangerous, spreads in South Africa

[ThunderKiss1965]

A new Covid variant has appeared in South Africa.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened...

www.who.int

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.


This news has disrupted the stock market and airlines.

Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, as stocks crash and flights are banned


President Biden is taking precautionary measures:

Senior Biden administration officials announced Friday that starting Monday, travel to the United States will be restricted from South Africa and seven other countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The new policy, which does not affect U.S. citizens and permanent residents, was enacted “out of an abundance of caution,” officials said, as public health officials work to learn more about the new variant.


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Still, major questions remain about the variant’s transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines or therapeutics.

The omicron variant was first detected in Botswana, but scientists in South Africa convened a news conference Thursday and said they had linked it to an exponential rise of infections in their country. Cases have also been identified in Hong Kong and Belgium, Israel and other countries.

It was xenophobic and racist when Trump suggested restricting travel with China.

 

[Doc7505]

Viruses are the ultimate killers. They infect people, vaccines are developed, then the viruses mutate in the bodies of those vaccinated people, so an entirely new vaccine has to be developed. Natural immunity is the only way mankind will survive the biological weapon the CCP has wrought.

谢谢你，中国

Bu, Bu, Bu, But St. Fauci now claims natural herd immunity should not be the goal..

Dr. Fauci Says "Herd Immunity" Is No Longer the Goal With COVID—This Is

www.msn.com

 

[Concerned American]

You can be assured it would not be guy and girl kinky.

Darn, and I just got my hopes up.

 

[JusticeHammer]

A new Covid variant has appeared in South Africa.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened...

www.who.int

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.


This news has disrupted the stock market and airlines.

Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, as stocks crash and flights are banned


President Biden is taking precautionary measures:

Senior Biden administration officials announced Friday that starting Monday, travel to the United States will be restricted from South Africa and seven other countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The new policy, which does not affect U.S. citizens and permanent residents, was enacted “out of an abundance of caution,” officials said, as public health officials work to learn more about the new variant.


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Still, major questions remain about the variant’s transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines or therapeutics.

The omicron variant was first detected in Botswana, but scientists in South Africa convened a news conference Thursday and said they had linked it to an exponential rise of infections in their country. Cases have also been identified in Hong Kong and Belgium, Israel and other countries.

When Trump wanted to do it from China in the very beginning pissoli and the rest of you libtards called him paranoid and bigoted. Now that the brain dead Biden does it he is awesome. You guys are idiots.

 

[JGalt]

Bu, Bu, Bu, But St. Fauci now claims there is no natural herd immunity.

He lied about a whole bunch of other shit too.

A Timeline of Fauci’s COVID-19 Deception - AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens

 

[JusticeHammer]

Good. A travel ban at least buys us a couple of weeks to try to make sense out of the new mutation.

Biden is a xenophobic idiot.

 

[WEATHER53]

There is no legal precedent in America to act frightened, to act as if you believe in and accept the fright. Along these lines is how these mandate type edicts will All be quashed.

 

[Concerned American]

This variant is already in several countries. There's no stopping it now. Travel bans will only slow it down for half a minute.

You mean those racist, xenophobic travel bans that dementia joe and the msm hate so bad? Those ones? Just so we're clear.

 

[Rogue AI]

Why is anyone surprised a guy who still refers to black folks as negroes is doing something racist?

 

[Burgermeister]

You can all relax. Scientists are on alert.

 

[g5000]

So....you guys are saying Biden is xenophobic and racist with these travel bans....right? Since you said that about Trump...right?

I never said that about Trump.

Nice try,

 

[struth]

A new Covid variant has appeared in South Africa.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened...

www.who.int

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.


This news has disrupted the stock market and airlines.

Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, as stocks crash and flights are banned


President Biden is taking precautionary measures:

Senior Biden administration officials announced Friday that starting Monday, travel to the United States will be restricted from South Africa and seven other countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The new policy, which does not affect U.S. citizens and permanent residents, was enacted “out of an abundance of caution,” officials said, as public health officials work to learn more about the new variant.


<snip>

Still, major questions remain about the variant’s transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines or therapeutics.

The omicron variant was first detected in Botswana, but scientists in South Africa convened a news conference Thursday and said they had linked it to an exponential rise of infections in their country. Cases have also been identified in Hong Kong and Belgium, Israel and other countries.

interesting …this sort of move was considered xenophobic by xiden last year

glad to see xiden and the dems have finally decided to start taking this seriously and reintroducing some of trumps policies that were working

 

[Concerned American]

There is no legal precedent in America to act frightened, to act as if you believe in and accept the fright. Along these lines is how these mandate type edicts will All be quashed.

Mandates are no more than suggestions to a free populace. Mandates are NOT laws.

 

[g5000]

interesting …this sort of move was considered xenophobic by xiden last year

glad to see xiden and the dems have finally decided to start taking this seriously and reintroducing some of trumps policies that were working

Now all Biden has to do is call it a hoax and claim we'll have it down to zero in a few days.

 

[WEATHER53]

Horrid market yet Netflix soaring because it’s forgone that another stay at home lockdown will be ordered.
50,000 dead directly from Covid and Covid alone. You would have to be in a room of 22,000 people to encounter one who will die solely from covid.
THE biggest single indicator of the swindling of our liberty is the MSM and liberals continued ignoring of the distinction CDC made 4 months ago about “dying with Covid”(Approaching 700k) versus “dying FROM Covid (50k) “

 

[Concerned American]

reintroducing some of trumps policies that were working

They are hoping that your memory is as long as an appendage on dementia joe's body. They'll be taking credit for a world shaking victory instead of being racist xenophobes next.

 

[struth]

Now all Biden has to do is call it a hoax and claim we'll have it down to zero in a few days.

why? it’s clear xiden won’t. he undid the plans that would and now had to play catch up.

Glad the dems started to actually treat it seriously…obviously now we know when they called it xenophobic it was a hoax on their part
. Once again trump was right in calling their actions back then a hoax

 

[Turtlesoup]

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert​

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.​

Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.

www.nature.com

26 Nov 2021 ~~ By Ewen Callaway

Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.
A top priority is to follow the variant more closely as it spreads: it was first identified in Botswana earlier this month and has since turned up in a traveller arriving in Hong Kong from South Africa. Scientists are also trying to understand the variant’s properties, such as whether it can evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and whether it causes more or less severe disease than other variants do.
“We’re flying at warp speed,” says Penny Moore, a virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, whose lab is gauging the variant’s potential to dodge immunity from vaccines and previous infections. There are anecdotal reports of reinfections and of cases in vaccinated individuals, but “at this stage it’s too early to tell anything”, Moore adds.
“There’s a lot we don’t understand about this variant,” Richard Lessells, an infectious-diseases physician at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, said at a press briefing organized by South Africa’s health department on 25 November. “The mutation profile gives us concern, but now we need to do the work to understand the significance of this variant and what it means for the response to the pandemic.”
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Vaccine effectiveness​

To understand the threat B.1.1.529 poses, researchers will be closely tracking its spread in South Africa and beyond. Researchers in South Africa mobilized efforts to quickly study the Beta variant, identified there in late 2020, and a similar effort is starting to study B.1.1.529.

See:
Virology SARS-CoV-2 Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Commentary:
If this new variant turns out to be worse than Delta, like a number of scientists are saying is possible, there will be a return to massive lockdowns and restrictions on civil liberties. Especially if it affects the vaccinated like Delta did. So much for those vaccines. I appears they've done nothing to stop the new variant.
Funny isn't it, they've named it the "Nu B" variant - as in "Newby". Give us a break. We are not all stupid. It's the FLU!!!! And if you want to be specific - it's the CHINESE WUHAN FLU!!!
"Fear has a new name..." and Covid Virus is it's name.
I'm waiting for the CDC to announce the "Andromeda Strain of COVID virus" is so contagious you can get it by text messages. Fauci will urge people to wear quadruple masks, lock themselves in their homes for the immediate future and wrap their bodies in plastic wrap. Joe Biden swill appear in a hazmat suit to address the nation but is quickly rushed off stage as he apparently passed one of his rancorous farts while suited up fogging his visor and making it impossible to read his teleprompter.
Meanwhile, Joey Xi's bombastic remarks berating Trump for his handling of the Chinese Virus needs to eat crow.
Bai Dung has handled it much worse than any other president before him. especially since he was handed a vaccine before he took the oath of office, sufficient PPE supplies and respirators that were scarce at the beginning of 2020.
Surely a president with all the decisive failures he has provoked and presided over in the last 10 months does not deserve to be president.

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The vaccines are being said to not effect it because it doesn't use the SPIKE that the earlier versions had which the vaccines are supposedly designed fight it off with.

If correct, we naturally immune are of course better off than the faux vaccined ones---even with full jabs and lots of boosters....and even if the faux vaccines don't cause you to die in another way. And for those that were naturally immuned and then got the jab---its anybody's guess...

 

[WEATHER53]

Mandates are no more than suggestions to a free populace. Mandates are NOT laws.

This is true in fact but not in practice. Let’s you and me go into Giant and see how we are threatened and asssulted by employees and other shoppers. The fun increases when they threaten to call the police which is a veiled threat because police Will Not respond because No Law exists that is being broken

 

[Concerned American]

This is true in fact but not in practice. Let’s you and me go into Giant and see how we are threatened and asssulted by employees and other shoppers. The fun increases when they threaten to call the police which is a veiled threat because police Will Not respond because No Law exists that is being broken

The folks in our area don't believe in masks. At the local Wally World, the only people masked are the employees. It is comical. The masks stand out more than the blue vests.