Concerns voiced over COVID Deltacron XBC sub-variant

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Scientists all over the world have been keeping a close eye on a new COVID-19 variant, which is a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron variants and is capable of attacking the lungs, like Delta, and is as easily transmissible as Omicron, according to the Centre for Medical Genomics at Mahidol University.

 

The hybrid, which is called Deltacron, has mutated into several sub-variants, namely XBC, XAY, XBA and XAW, especially XBC, which has registered 130 mutations.

 

The centre said that Deltacron was detected in the Philippines early this year and then quickly disappeared. It has since re-emerged in various sub-variants.

 

In a worst case scenario, the centre said that Deltacron may be as deadly as Delta, which has killed about 3.4% of those infected, which is twice the fatality rate of Omicron, citing a report published in Nature Reviews Immunology.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/concerns-voiced-over-covid-deltacron-xbc-sub-variant/

 

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[TooMuchTime]

covid is a meme at this point and each variant just sounds like some car trim level on a camry.

[HighPriority]

8 minutes ago, TooMuchTime said:

covid is a meme at this point and each variant just sounds like some car trim level on a camry.

Mai pen rai 

[BayArea]

I am waiting for Defcon XYZ-123 sub-sub variant, that's when we should really be concerned. 

[stoner]

digging up the old covid chestnut again eh. nothing like a good fear mongering in the morning. 

[jacko45k]

Ironic this is mentioned as the world's population surpasses 8 billion....... somethings gotta give. 

[mikebell]

How do I get my 2nd Pfizer booster?

Edited November 16, 2022 by mikebell

[huangnon]

Immune system still working great, thanks.

[tomazbodner]

A university in US managed to combine original Wuhan virus with Omicron, to make it as easy to transmit as Omicron, but has 80% fatality rate (they tested this on mice, where omicron killed none, this virus killed 8/10). I just wonder with the news like this hitting the internet, and knowing how unprotected university labs are - how long would it take before that samples are stolen and distributed to public by some doomsday preacher.

 

It would be a perfect time for that as well, since we're now in "mai pen rai" ignorance period, where people are fed up listening about it and downplay it. Actually, if that uni lab could do it, how difficult would it be for some threat actor else to do the same?

[PremiumLane]

5 hours ago, stoner said:

digging up the old covid chestnut again eh. nothing like a good fear mongering in the morning. 

how is it fear mongering?

[PremiumLane]

2 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

A university in US managed to combine original Wuhan virus with Omicron, to make it as easy to transmit as Omicron, but has 80% fatality rate (they tested this on mice, where omicron killed none, this virus killed 8/10). I just wonder with the news like this hitting the internet, and knowing how unprotected university labs are - how long would it take before that samples are stolen and distributed to public by some doomsday preacher.

No, that is not what happened, you read a headline and ran with an incorrect theory. 

 

The research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the virus strain or make it more dangerous. In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous.  What they did was standard research to look at the function of the genes and proteins - they did not make a new virus, or mutate it into something more dangerous.

 

I suggest you search for the article that covers this - NEIDL Researchers Refute UK Article about COVID Strain

[PJ71]

12 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

how is it fear mongering?

I would suggest coz no one really cares about covid any more...

Edited November 16, 2022 by onthedarkside
trolling comment removed

[Jai Dee]

3 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

A university in US managed to combine original Wuhan virus with Omicron, to make it as easy to transmit as Omicron, but has 80% fatality rate (they tested this on mice, where omicron killed none, this virus killed 8/10). I just wonder with the news like this hitting the internet, and knowing how unprotected university labs are - how long would it take before that samples are stolen and distributed to public by some doomsday preacher.

 

It would be a perfect time for that as well, since we're now in "mai pen rai" ignorance period, where people are fed up listening about it and downplay it. Actually, if that uni lab could do it, how difficult would it be for some threat actor else to do the same?

Reuters ran a fact check on that story... unfortunately I cannot quote from it due to copyright reasons, but you can read it here.

[garrya]

11 minutes ago, Jai Dee said:

Reuters ran a fact check on that story... unfortunately I cannot quote from it due to copyright reasons, but you can read it here.

Reuters as a reliable source to fact check? 

????

Who owns Reuters?

[madmitch]

Why do I only ever learn about new covid subvariants from the Thailand news?

 

Has the fearmongering stopped in the rest of the world?

[Sparktrader]

3 hours ago, garrya said:

Reuters as a reliable source to fact check? 

????

Who owns Reuters?

Reuters always been ok

[Sparktrader]

11 hours ago, PJ71 said:

I would suggest coz no one really cares about covid any more...

People who get sick care

[Sparktrader]

https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=TRI

 

Shareholders in Reuters

[garrya]

Stop reading mainstream media. 

It's a one-way traffic. 

Do your own research 

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, garrya said:

Stop reading mainstream media. 

It's a one-way traffic. 

Do your own research 

I do. Reuters is an old finance reporting company. Always been good. You don't even know who owns them.

[PJ71]

47 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

People who get sick care

Everyone gets sick.

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, garrya said:

Junk food? 

Lol

Quit reading mainstream media brother

 

Read tin foil stuff instead??

 

You are making no sense.

 

Tell us why cancer is rising then....

 

 

[Sparktrader]

Just now, PJ71 said:

Everyone gets sick.

Gee great analysis.

[PJ71]

2 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Gee great analysis.

Thanks, you're welcome.

[Sparktrader]

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/viruses-that-can-lead-to-cancer

 

[Sparktrader]

2 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

Thanks, you're welcome.

You have a website?

[PJ71]

1 minute ago, Sparktrader said:

You have a website?

No, do you?

[garrya]

2 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/viruses-that-can-lead-to-cancer

 

And again, WebMd as independent reliable source.

Lol

 

[anrcaccount]

1 hour ago, madmitch said:

Why do I only ever learn about new covid subvariants from the Thailand news?

 

Has the fearmongering stopped in the rest of the world?

Yes. The rest of the world has stopped fear mongering. 

 

Thailand is one of a handful of countries in the world still reporting Covid on the front pages.

 

They also are one of a handful of countries where mass masking is still common.  

 

 

 

[daveAustin]

26 minutes ago, garrya said:

Stop reading mainstream media. 

It's a one-way traffic. 

Do your own research 

As opposed too what, meaningless dribble on the likes of facebook and other 'out there' junk? Always cringe when folk say don't read MSM, do your own research etc, which basically means they'll believe anything other than what the big researchers have found out. The earth is automatically flat if the BBC or CNN say it's round, etc etc. ????