The potent strain of coronavirus also hit Europe, taking a particularly strong hold in Italy, before spreading to the US (light blue)
Daily Mail: Is this the mutation that made coronavirus spread like wildfire in NYC, Italy and the UK? D614G strain has four-times as many 'spikes' that latch onto human cells and is '10 times more infectious' than milder forms seen in California
* Scientists identified a mutation in the strain of coronavirus most commonly found in New York City and Italy
* The mutant virus has more 'spike' proteins that allow it to infect human cells
* Its spike are also more flexible, making it less fragile and more 'stabile' say Scripps Research scientists
* It confirms prior research suggesting more aggressive form of the virus spread from Europe to the East Coast while a milder form from China hit the West
A mutated strain of coronavirus that has decimated the US, UK and Italy is nearly 10 times more infectious than the original virus that emerged from China, a study suggests.
The potent version of SARS-CoV-2 - called D614G - has four to five times more 'spikes' that protrude from the viral surface allow it to latch onto human cells.
Not only does this trait make it more infectious, but it also makes the virus more stable and resilient.
Scientists have been puzzled about why coronavirus has seemed to hit some states and countries harder than others.
Previous research had highlighted that the potent D614G strain was circulating in high numbers in Italy, the UK and New York City - where infection and death rates are among the worst in the world.
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WNU Editor: It explains why some countries and regions have been hard, and others not so hard. This study also contradicts earlier reports .... Researchers say mutations haven’t made the coronavirus more dangerous (BGR).
More News On A Study That Suggests Covid-19 Coronavirus May Have Mutated To Become More Infectious And Stable
Mutation could make coronavirus more infectious, study suggests -- 9News/CNN
Mutation Helps Coronavirus Infect More Human Cells, Study Shows -- US News and World Report
Study: Dominant form of virus ‘10 times’ more infectious than original strain -- Times of Israel
Mutated coronavirus strain is much more transmittable, study shows -- Jerusalem Post
‘Covid-19 virus may have mutated to become more infectious and stable’: Study https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/covid-19-virus-may-have-mutated-to-beccome-more-infectious-and-stable-study/story-0CBBqU5mTrSoxuyBT0PJUI.html-- Hindustan Times
6 comments:
Yesterday was...today is...tomorrow will be...why bother reading this stuff?
Wall Street Journal on the Cholera out break in in the 1990s in South America.
Key take away:
Disease will mutate to a more virulent form, where there is a poor healthcare system.
Disease will mutate to a less virulent form, where there is a good healthcare system.
New York City had many, many deaths.
What can we conclude? The NYC health care system is terrible.
Why? Democrat law makers promulgated bad policies such as forcing nursing homes to take COVID patients.
What shall we do? Sue said Democrat in civil court and prosecute them in criminal court.
Stable? that very interesting.
anon: your conclusions wrong. you see things not as they are but as you are
Stable is the wrong word. I believe geneticists or biologists use 'highly conserved' as in the genome of the virus does not change much. So they are saying it changed and then found a genetic combinations that does not change.
That has to be some sort of pressure(s) or mechanism to make it 'stable'.
" The mimivirus genome also possesses 21 genes encoding homologs to proteins which are seen to be highly conserved ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimivirus
If the ChoanoVirus's genome was highly conserved, then I think it would do to it "going steady" with choanoflagellate. That would provide the pressure
www.the-scientist.com/notebook/researchers-discover-the-largest-virus-in-the-oceans-yet-67157
If a mutated form of COVID-19 is stable and highly infectious n NYC, it means that the Mayor and the governor are providing the ''appropriate ' pressure for it to happen and the virus thanks them.
"anon: your conclusions wrong. you see things not as they are but as you are"
Comrade de Blasio did not force COVID patients into nursing homes?
Are you insane or a liar?
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