YahooTue, 18 Aug 2020 10:12 UTC
© CDC"This calls for some optimism about herd immunity," an immunologist said
An increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appears less deadly, according to a prominent infectious diseases doctor.
Paul Tambyah, senior consultant at the National University of Singapore and president-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, said evidence suggests the proliferation of the D614G mutation in some parts of the world has coincided with a drop in death rates, suggesting it is less lethal.
"Maybe that's a good thing to have a virus that is more infectious but less deadly," Tambyah told Reuters.
Tambyah said
most viruses tend to become less virulent as they mutate.
"It is in the virus' interest to infect more people but not to kill them because a virus depends on the host for food and for shelter," he said.
Scientists discovered the mutation as early as February and it has circulated in Europe and the Americas, the World Health Organization said. The WHO has also said there is no evidence the mutation has led to more severe disease.On Sunday, Malaysia's director-general of health Noor Hisham Abdullah urged greater public vigilance after authorities detected what they believe was the D614G mutation of the coronavirus in two recent clusters.
Sebastian Maurer-Stroh of Singapore's agency for science, technology and research said the variant has also been found in the city-state but that containment measures have prevented large-scale spread.
Malaysia's Noor Hisham said
the D614G strain detected there was 10 times more infectious and that vaccines currently in development may not be effective against this mutation.
But Tambyah and Maurer-Stroh said such mutations would not likely change the virus enough to make potential vaccines less effective.
"(The) variants are almost identical and did not change areas that our immune system typically recognise, so there shouldn't be any difference for vaccines being developed," said Maurer-Stroh.
Comment: As noted above: our immune systems will likely recognize the mutated coronavirus however the vaccine may not be effective against it. Moreover it has been shown that the vaccine experimentation
in the US would be likely to cause more damage to a person than the virus itself.
Considering that the coronavirus is already
harmless for the vast majority, why even bother with a vaccine - and especially the catastrophic lockdown policies - when there's already a more infectious and even more harmless strain of coronavirus already making its way through the population, and that would eventually confer herd immunity?
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What if the random number generators (the tests which cannot distinguish between any particular virus aren't able to identify covid but kick out positives based on a state or region's percentage positive for the day/week in which it was taken, continue to be used as contact tracing increases, and will be used as justification to keep us under house arrest forever?
What if the vaccines are meant to kill us, or worse, to disconnect people from their spiritual selves?
What if humanity's unwillingness to stop wearing masks and stop social distancing and testing is setting us all up for the slaughter?