New COVID variant detected in South Africa, most mutated variant so far

[left-of-center2012]

A new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that
it could be more infectious and evade vaccines, according to a new preprint study by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

Scientists first detected C.1.2 in May 2021, finding that it was descended from C.1, which scientists found surprising as C.1 had last been detected in January. The new variant has "mutated substantially" compared to C.1 and is more mutations away from the original virus detected in Wuhan than any other Variant of Concern (VOC) or Variant of Interest (VOI) detected so far worldwide.

The study also found that the C.1.2 lineage has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, which is nearly twice as fast as the current global mutation rate of the other variants.

While first detected in South Africa, C.1.2 has since been found in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/new-covid-variant-detected-in-south-africa-most-mutated-variant-so-far-678011

[LonePirate]

1. This is troubling that it was found in New Zealand despite the tight controls there.

Delta may be child's play compared to this one.

[PortTack]

2. I hope they're working on more vaccines and treatments... I just can't even wrap my head around

Just how dangerous this is

[COL Mustard]

4. You Know They Are.

Nt

[PortTack]

15. Thx ..needed a hopeful comment.

[COL Mustard]

3. JFC.

Will this pandemic ever end?

Thanks, TFG. And by that I really mean 🖕

[IcyPeas]

5. What ever happened to that other variant... lambda or something

It seemed to fade away

[Scrivener7]

8. I think I read that it couldn't compete with Delta, so it did fade away.

[Celerity]

21. Lambda has not 'faded away' just yet

The dangerous lambda variant has started spreading in California

https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2021/8/25/22641331/lambda-variant-in-california-cases

[Lovie777]

6. COVID-19 wants to survive . . . ..

We must keep diligent and hopefully the medical/science divisions come up an ass kicking solution.

[BoycottTimHortons]

7. I'm so tired

Of it all. Will we ever have any semblance of normality? Life is especially depressing now.

[Texaswitchy]

10. I wonder.

I think Trump ended that.

He let loose the crazy ones.

[vercetti2021]

9. Just like the plague inc game

It mutates constantly from DNA structure changes. Eventually it'll becoming more fatal.

[Texaswitchy]

12. Like Captain Trips in the Stand.

Most people died.

[Corgigal]

11. If the spike is the same,

we’re all good.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. And what if it's not? n/t

[Corgigal]

17. The labs

will get us a new vaccine. We got to sit tight again,.

Let’s us hope the unvaccinated get the shots, so we can all move on.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Oh, my dear Corgigal--How much I hope you're right. This has to end. ♥

[Dan]

14. Yes, you gotta hand it to the freedum loving people...

in the end, they're going to kill us all OR as many as they can.

And then, maybe one day, they'll say "I'm sorry, I was just getting the libs (or whatever the tale will be)..".

Oh, I forgot, and if we survive this - their memories will fade and they'll share "...it wasn't me, I always believed in science".

[moonscape]

20. Or they'll fade as they won't get

vaxxed for new variants either.

[Irish_Dem]

16. If this were a disaster movie, I would say the script is totally implausible.

I would have assumed that medical science would be able to defeat the virus.
And that the public would be quite cooperative.

[Hugin]

19. That's where I was in March of 2020...

So naïve.

I still absolutely believe in your first assumption. We've seen the successes in the form of wonderful vaccines.

However, I've done a complete 180 about face on your second. I still do think the majority of people are being cooperative, but, the loud people are doing everything they can to screw it up. Solely because they can't face being wrong.

[Irish_Dem]

22. I keep thinking about March 2020. Friends kept saying it would all be over by June.

I was a bit more cautious, and silly me thought maybe the Fall.

Yes I think eventually the virus will come under control. I assumed the vaccine would take care of things by now. Did not foresee the variations. And I assumed we would have found successful treatments fairly quickly. I was so naive.

I knew early on that there were some people who thought the virus was a hoax, but I assumed they would change their minds one they saw the deaths all around them. Again how naive.

I agree, I think stubbornness is a part of it. Also if they admit the virus is real, they would have to face all the other lies they are telling themselves about white supremacy, the GOP version of reality, all of it. They are entitled and paranoid.