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In that case apologies and thank you, I had no idea what the Latin was about.Not saying anything about COVID19, just providing the meaning of the lawyers use of Latin.
In that case apologies and thank you, I had no idea what the Latin was about.Not saying anything about COVID19, just providing the meaning of the lawyers use of Latin.
No worries. I am sorry that you lost a family member no matter how it happened.In that case apologies and thank you, I had no idea what the Latin was about.
I keep hearing this press release but haven't seen a published study or even a preprint. What little I heard was that it was a very tiny study.It is already reported on some media today 2/7/2020,but it is not great news.
The two vaccines tested against B.1.351 south African variant failed to do any better than a placebo in 2000 individuals with an average age of 31.
AstraZeneca says by autumn of 2021 they should have a new vaccine against the South African variant. No comment from Pfizer yet.
The world has 58 available versions of a sars-cov2 vaccine( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32623-4/fulltext ). Hopefully one of them can fight mutations better than the placebo.
South Africa pauses AstraZeneca vaccine rollout after study shows it offers less protection against variant | CNN
South African health officials said Sunday they're pausing the country's rollout of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after a study showed it offered reduced protection from the Covid-19 variant first identified there.www.cnn.com
Yes it doesIf it's a random antibody-resistant mutated virus, it won't matter if it bounces into a vaccinated person or not.
It was a preprint in the Lancet. I had posted a link to it. It is gone and the link leads to a different study now. It was a study of 2k with a median age of 31. Follow the science,unless we do not want you to see the science then do what we say in ignorance.I keep hearing this press release but haven't seen a published study or even a preprint. What little I heard was that it was a very tiny study.
Can you say why it matters if a random mutation that can survive when others cannot jumps into a vaccinated or unvaccinated host?Yes it does
A random mutation doesn't necessarily have an evolutionary benefit. A random mutation that can survive when others cannot has an evolutionary benefit.
This is why, frustrating as it is, that infectious disease experts want to mitigate spread even amongst the vaccinated.
I would say that there is a reasonable chance of something like that....the world may eventually end up with a combined or dual flu/covid annual vaccine solution as both of them continue to mutate. Only time will tell.
If the virus jumps into an unvaccinated host, the host has no antibodies anyway so no benefit to a mutation that avoids current antibodies. But if the host has antibodies to most variations, then the one that will multiply is an antibody-resistant variant. I don't think these occur very easily (or so it appears so far) but the more replication we have the more likely it is.Can you say why it matters if a random mutation that can survive when others cannot jumps into a vaccinated or unvaccinated host?
Yup, this.If the virus jumps into an unvaccinated host, the host has no antibodies anyway so no benefit to a mutation that avoids current antibodies. But if the host has antibodies to most variations, then the one that will multiply is an antibody-resistant variant. I don't think these occur very easily (or so it appears so far) but the more replication we have the more likely it is.
.If the virus jumps into an unvaccinated host, the host has no antibodies anyway so no benefit to a mutation that avoids current antibodies. But if the host has antibodies to most variations, then the one that will multiply is an antibody-resistant variant. I don't think these occur very easily (or so it appears so far) but the more replication we have the more likely it is.
How often do people get infected with multiple variants?Yup, this.
Probably not really known at this point. I only started hearing about "variants" a month or two ago..
How often do people get infected with multiple variants?
There are now documented cases of people who have 2 different Covid variants AT THE SAME TIME so probably more frequently than we realize, but it is also likely that the variants are fairly disparate from each other..
How often do people get infected with multiple variants?
My wife and I both get our #2 Moderna shots Monday Feb 22.I get shot #2 Friday,my wife had shot #1 Thursday at Walmart. Both ours were the Moderna vaccine.