New strain is now showing up which is several times more transmissible than
the original version.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/A-new-strain-of-the-coronavirus-is-dominant-now-15447508.php
The implications of the new dynamic in rapid spreading are seriously
threatening even with quarantines, so lets hope it is less deadly.
Perhaps the new strain will be mild - yet almost everyone will get it -- and
then be inoculated against the deadly version, "for free" as it were.
That would be bad for Big Pharma... but they seem to find a way to monetize any
threat.
Terry Blanton wrote:
If we were as vulnerable to virus as many believe, humanity would not have
survived as long as we have. Other than antibodies, we have developed other
defenses over the eons. This article:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/we-are-mutating-sars-cov-2-but-it-is-evolving-back/
describes how humans weaken a virus over time. Indeed, along with good
quarentining (preventing the survival of more fit mutations), the SARS virus
was taken down in this manner. Antibody stimulating vaccines are good; but,
attacking that one thing which makes the virus our enemy, its RNA, is better.
