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 <hohlr...@gmail.com> 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.
