Assuming I did my sums correctly, here are the death rates for all 50 states plus DC from January 1 to the present:
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"Re Europe's travel ban, that is mostly political not scientific. Once the virus is out enough in your community so that it is well established, banning travel from other nation with a somewhat higher case count is mostly meaningless."
So lets take this ONE STEP further
What if the EU is saying "hey because of your politicization of the virus we cannot trust you to keep it under control? Sure we may get DELTA under control but YOU are lagging far behind. SO FAR BEHIND that we no longer believe the United States has the ability to take the necessary action needed to be able to travel safely to other countries."
Is it political or a big middle finger to our scientific/medical community?
England and Israel have one thing in common - accurate figures. Why is that? Perhaps because they both have national health insurance there stats are automatically reported to a national data base? In the U.S. its 50 states that may or may not politicize the disease and try to hide how good/bad they are doing?
How would ANY EU nation allow for ANY travel from Florida under this pandemic?
And of course - right on schedule:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/569984-south-african-scientists-say-new-coronavirus-variant-has-concerning
A South African research paper released this month detailed a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, with scientists noting that it has "concerning constellations of mutations."
The researchers noted that the C.1.2 variant shares several mutations common to all variants of concern — alpha, beta, delta and gamma — as well as three variants of interest. According to the scientists, these mutations likely occurred in a single individual who had a prolonged case of COVID-19, resulting in an accelerated evolution.
"While these mutations are not characteristic of current VOCs/VOIs, they have been associated with escape from certain class 3 neutralizing antibodies," they wrote. "The combination of these mutations presents a potentially novel antigenic landscape for C.1.2 variant specific antibodies."
The variant has not yet been given a name, though if it does receive one it will likely be a letter from the Greek alphabet as all other variants have received.
The research paper focused on the C.1.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was first detected in May of this year. It descended from the C.1 variant of the virus, one of the variants that overtook South Africa earlier this year.
"C.1.2 is highly mutated beyond C.1 and all other [variants of concern] and [variants of interest] globally with between 44-59 mutations away from the original Wuhan Hu-1 virus," the researchers wrote.
"While the phenotypic characteristics and epidemiology of C.1.2 are being defined, it is important to highlight this lineage given its concerning constellations of mutations," they said.
This variant was first detected in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces of South Africa. It has since been found in six of South Africa's nine provinces as well as in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
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Interesting list of countries this has already spread to.
Troubling number of mutations..........
@ RT:
Another view of the same variant from Israel:
'https://www.jpost.com/health-science/new-covid-variant-detected-in-south-africa-most-mutated-variant-so-far-678011
A new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that it could be more infectious and evade vaccines, according to a new preprint study by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform. The study is awaiting peer review.
Scientists first detected C.1.2 in May 2021, finding that it was descended from C.1, which scientists found surprising as C.1 had last been detected in January. The new variant has "mutated substantially" compared to C.1 and is more mutations away from the original virus detected in Wuhan than any other Variant of Concern (VOC) or Variant of Interest (VOI) detected so far worldwide.
While first detected in South Africa, C.1.2 has since been found in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
The scientists believe that the number of available sequences of C.1.2 may be an underrepresentation of the spread and frequency of the variant in South Africa and around the world. The study found consistent increases in the number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa on a monthly basis, rising from 0.2% of genomes sequenced in May to 1.6% in June and then to 2% in July, similar to the increases seen with the Beta and Delta variants there.
The study also found that the C.1.2 lineage has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, which is nearly twice as fast as the current global mutation rate of the other variants. The scientists stated that this short period of increased evolution was also seen with the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants, suggesting that a single event, followed by a spike in cases, drove faster mutation rates.
More than half of the C.1.2 sequences have 14 mutations, but additional mutations have been noticed in some of the sequences, suggesting that evolution within the lineage is ongoing, according to the study.
More than half (about 52%) of the mutations in the spike region of the C.1.2 sequences have previously been seen in other VOCs and VOIs. The mutations N440K and Y449H, which have been associated with escape from certain antibodies, have also been noticed in C.1.2 sequences. *****************The scientists stressed that the combination of these mutations, as well as changes in other parts of the virus, likely help the virus evade antibodies and immune responses, including in patients who have already been infected with the Alpha or Beta variants.*************************
The scientists added that further work is required to understand the exact impact of these mutations and to see if they give the variant a competitive advantage over the Delta variant.
The study comes as a doctor in Turkey reported indications that a new coronavirus variant had been detected in the country, with tests detecting mutations that weren't found in the current variants named by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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I am beginning to come to the conclusion that herd immunity is only a mutation away from being irrelevant
And that the vaccine effectiveness we have against DELTA may have been a stroke of luck for our pharma industry rather than deliberate