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This Is Why The New Mutant COVID Strain That Is Ravaging South Africa Has Scientists Extremely Worried...I have no idea what to make of this as I am a finance professional. Is there any reason to think that mutations will change the spike protein such that the vaccines will become worthless. I would be surprised if it did, though flu mutations certainly render the annual choice of flu vaccines much less successful. It seems like the US intelligence community is leaning toward a lab created virus. I'm not sure we will ever know for sure. However, the advances in technology make such creations entirely possible. I wonder what the right approach is to stop the creation of lethal pathogens The article is from Zerohedge, so..... Over the past couple of weeks, the new coronavirus strain known as “Super COVID” has been racing through the UK and making headlines all over the globe, but scientists insist that the new mutant COVID strain in South Africa is potentially much more dangerous. Just like “Super COVID” in the UK, there is evidence that the South African strain spreads faster, and South Africa’s health minister has warned that there is “anecdotal evidence” of a “larger proportion of younger patients with no co-morbidities presenting with critical illness”. But the biggest reason why health authorities are so concerned about this particular strain is because it has mutated so dramatically that the current vaccines that have been developed may not work against it. The following comes from a Reuters article entitled “UK scientists worry vaccines may not protect against S.African coronavirus variant”…
Even though the UK is the epicenter of the “Super COVID” outbreak, the British are so alarmed by the South African strain that they have banned all flights from South Africa. In an interview with the BBC, Hancock admitted that he is “incredibly worried” about what is happening in South Africa right now…
As the Daily Mail recently explained, the vaccines that have already been developed are designed to get the body to identify COVID’s “spike protein”, and if this does not happen they will not work properly…
Scientists are telling us that the new mutant strain in South Africa has a total of eight changes to the spike protein, and Dr. John Bell of Oxford University is calling them “pretty substantial changes”…
At this moment, we do not know if the current vaccines will be rendered useless by this new mutant strain or not. But it is being reported that early tests have shown that at least one of the mutations appears to have made the virus more resistant to antibodies…
Of course much more testing needs to be done, and those tests are being conducted right now. According to a top official in the UK, scientists may be able to come to some sort of a conclusion in a couple of weeks…
So it may be a while before we know for sure if the current vaccines will be effective against this frightening new mutant strain in South Africa or not. But what we do know is that this new strain is rapidly becoming dominant in large portions of South Africa…
If it is becoming dominant there, there is a good chance that it will become dominant as it spreads elsewhere as well. In recent days, two cases of the South African strain have been confirmed in the UK, and there have also been cases detected in Finland, Switzerland and Australia. Then on Monday, a case popped up in Austria…
And officials in Japan just announced that a case has been identified in their country…
So it appears that the cat is already out of the bag. A whole host of nations have already put travel restrictions in place to try to keep this deadly new strain from spreading more widely. But so far the U.S. is not among them. In fact, testing is not even required for people traveling to the U.S. from South Africa. Just like we have seen with “Super COVID”, it is probably just a matter of time before the South African strain spreads all over the planet. And if the current vaccines will not work against it, that will put scientists back to square one in fighting this pandemic. Of course there are tens of millions of people in the United States that will never take any COVID vaccine under any circumstances. Many are deeply concerned about the potential long-term effects of these experimental mRNA vaccines, and there is still so much that we do not know about them. These are such troubled times, and the “perfect storm” that started in 2020 is only going to get worse in 2021. Scientists thought that the new vaccines would give them the upper hand in dealing with this pandemic, but that may not be the case after all. And as COVID continues to mutate, it is inevitable that there will be even more surprises for our health authorities in the months ahead… |
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