Coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different strains new study finds

[steve2470]

Source: Jerusalem Post

A new study in China has found that the novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different variations.

The results showed that medical officials have vastly underestimated the overall ability of the virus to mutate, in findings that different strains have affected different parts of the world, leading to potential difficulties in finding an overall cure.

The study was carried out by Professor Li Lanjuan and colleagues from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China and published in a non-peer reviewed paper released on website medRxiv.org on Sunday.

Li's team analyzed the strains from 11 randomly chosen coronavirus patients from Hangzhou, where there have been 1,264 reported cases, and then tested how efficiently they could infect and kill cells.

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-has-mutated-into-at-least-30-different-strains-new-study-finds-625333

[rpannier]

1. I am guessing all these strains are resistant to the "Game Changing Malaria Drug'

[yellowdogintexas]

3. that is assuming the "Game Changing Malaria Drug" actually

works. HA!

[gab13by13]

11. That drug is done,

It killed more people than it cured. Wonder what Trump is going to do with those millions of doses that he says he bought?

[PatSeg]

15. Yes

and people found out what they had to lose.

[Phoenix61]

2. That is inaccurate as I noted in another post.

This was all done in a lab.

[Recursion]

7. BREAKING: scientists use laboratory!

You know people are actually tracking the strains found in the wild, right?

[Phoenix61]

16. Yes, I do but that's not what the article is about

They collected samples from 11 patients in China and watched them in a lab. To extrapolate that the virus will behave the exact same way in “the wild” is bad science.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Worthless rumour mongering

Non peer reviewed study with 11 patients from questionable sources with limited history/reputation.

Get back to me when this is reviewed, replicated and reported by a reputable source.

[RandySF]

10. I think U.S. scientists are sticking with eight.

[Phoenix61]

17. +1 nt

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

5. Makes PERFECT sense-SHIFTING ANTIGENS!Just what I was afraid of & this means that vaccine is

MUCH further off than the next 18 months, IF at all, because remember, the common cold is a coronavirus... I just listened to that IDIOT mayor of Las Vegas...WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!! GREEDY GRAPEFRUIT is going to sacrifice more of his base BUT the people who work in the casinos are the innocents who'll be forced to go back to work will be MURDERED. I have to say once again, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!! This'll turn the elections COMPLETELY blue & purple. with DOTS of red, that is, IF there are surviving MAGATs because I'll bet ANYONE dollars to donuts that the death tolls will be UNIMAGINABLE & HORRIFIC in states & counties where the GREEDY BASTARDS "REOPEN THE ECONOMY".

This reopening'll be a disaster of unprecedented proportions!! EVEN IF STATES THAT REOPEN, you'll see that most people have common sense & will NOT patronise businesses, because MOST AMERICANS ARE.NEITHER.SUICIDAL. NOR.STUPID... Only members of the MAGAt HIVE will insist on going out, AGAINST ALL MEDICAL ADVICE...Research what happened during the Flu Pandemic 1918-19 to PHILADELPHIA, who REFUSED to close down a parade meant to raise bond money for the WWI...EXACTLY the same situation but this assh*le is going for gold by spreading viral death from SEA to SHINING SEA.

& Barr is threatening to SUE states which REFUSE to open up? GOOD LUCK.. HOW can you FORCE people to go out to spend the money THEY DON'T HAVE by playing Russian Roulette with the lives of family, friends, neighbors & themselves using a 6 chamber pistol that's loaded w/5 bullets.

LAWD, it's FUCKING insane & SUICIDAL for the pointed head morons who STILL believe him...

[gab13by13]

12. Yeah but I imagine that Trump International will be opening.

[applegrove]

6. That would explain why people who had it once, tested clear, could get it again. nt

[RandySF]

9. Not saying this is wrond, but I'd like to see another source.

Neither the Chinese government not the JP give me a lot of confidence.

[gab13by13]

13. I don't know how many strains there are,

but there are more than Chinese scientists saying there are.

I keep telling people that this virus is much more deadly than people are saying. It is going to be with us a long time and with a mentally ill president the US will be one of the last countries to mitigate it. Look at Sweden as an example. We are reopening the economy in states that still have a high % of infections. Just watch Georgia 2 to 3 weeks after it opens up.

[mainer]

14. Study done by one of the leading virologists in the world

Prof. Li was the one who advised locking down Wuhan. And she successfully managed the SARS outbreak. I think she has a pretty sterling reputation.